The Wrangell sentinel., 1924-06-12
Hooper Delivers
 Address Before
 Commercial Club

Wrangell Commercial Club. He was the principal speaker at the Commercial Club luncheon Monday.
 After expressing his pleasure at the privilege of again meeting with the Wrangell Commercial Club Mir. Hooper made a most interesting ad- dress on the present situation in Southeastern Alaska in relation to tourists. He was positive that help from the outside could be secured for developing the tourist business. He told of the Pacific Steamship Company having made a voluntary donation of $2,000, or S250 for each town in Southeastern Alaska, the money to be expended through the central organization for advertising & utheastern Alaska MT. Hooper ieIt SuIe that nun per Ol OlneT substantial donations could be se- cured from the outside, and he be- lieved that $15,O00 should be set as minimum aggregate figure (for all Southeastern Alaska) as a nu- cleus for an advertising campaign.
 MT. Hooper stated that it is de- plorable fact that many wild state ments are made and much misinfor- nation disseminated by persons who have actually made trip north, and who feel that they owe i. to the world to write something about Alaska. In an effort to make their articles rank as masterpieces of literary genius many ridiculous statements are made. MT. Hooper exhibited one newspaper clipping which referred to swarms of mos quitoes as large as sparrows in the vicinity of Wrangell There was also a picture of man in small outboard motor boat waiting for the tide at the mouth of Wrangell Narrows''. The writer also told of a glacier near Wrangell which has it's base below the level of the sea and whose perpendicular walls rise to a height of more than three thousand feet above salt water. Then the writer, in an effort to make it appear that he is as great a conservationist as Clifford Pinchot, says that the resources of Alaska should not be touched during this generation, but held by Uncle Sam in sacred trust until such time as the United Staets has a population Of three hundred million.
 In contrast with this article tell ing of swarms of mosquitoes as large as sparrows in the vicinity of Wrangell Mr Hooper exhibited a long clipping from a Los Angeles daily containing an interview with himself and showing picture of a Wrangell garden with IT varieties of flowers in bloom, the picture having been taken on October 10. Mir. Hooper had this picture colored by an artist and has shown it with other Wrangell pictures in his nu- merous lectures during the past winter and spring.
 Mir. Hooper, being a travelstain- CT. tourist himself, fully appreciates Southeastern Alaska's splendid op- portunity for the development of tremendouss tourist business, and with no remuneration whatever he is doing more toadvertise Southeast ern Alaska than any other man liv- ing. Since he was in Wrangell last fall he has lectured before many large audiences and has never lost an opportunity to tell of the beauty and wonder of voyage to South eastern Alaska. After his return to the States last fall he was inter- viewed by all the leading metropol- itan papers of the Pacific coast, and he furnished columns of publicity of kind that money cannot buy, and in all his interviews he played up Wrangell to a splendid advan- tage.
 MT. Hooper left on the Hazel B No. 8 for a trip to Telegraph Greek.