The Wrangell sentinel., 1925-10-29
C0rSer Aims a Sockdolaeer at
 An Unbeliever

in the Enquirer and News an inter of Marshall who had just returned from Alaska. A copy of the paper has found its way back to the land about which the interview was writ ten, and in last weeks mail came a letter from Reverend Harry P. Cor ser of the St. Phillips church of Wrangell, correcting the statements of the Reverend Waid, and explain ing the beauties and resources of the northland. Mr. Corser's letter follows:
 Editor Enquirer and News: May l have the privilege of correcting some of the impressions made by the Reverend George Waid of Marshall published in the Enquirer Of August my notice by former resident of Battle Creek.
 The interview reminds me very much of the writings Of one Dickens who once made hasty trip through our country and then went back 10 his own country and wrote a book entitled American Notes. We Am ericans did not take very kindly to him TOT that. Alaska is very large country and has almost as many varieties of climate as one would find going from Southern Ohio to the Arctic Circle. Every new country has it's disappointed ones who have failed in the older parts of our country and have come to Alaska with their old inefficient habits and naturally have not sue eeeded here. MT. Waid must have met some of these. Of course it has been the experience of every new part of our country that a large part of those who came, came with a1 intention of not remaining, but Of making a stake and moving out as soon as possible Alaska is no exception in this respect.
 The writer refers to Skagway. Skagway has shared the fate of all new towns which were built by the building of a railroad. When the railroad is completed the builders move on and leave the place but shadow of its former self, but this was to be expected. Towns built up by placer mines are proverbially un- stable and the route that MT. Waid took through the north must have been where most of the placer camps were.
 Now as to the climate. The writer was for two years lecturer for the Admiral Steamship Co.,, and met tourist going to the north. She, on her return, was asked how she enjoyed her trip down the Yu- kon. She said that it was very warm, and that from now on she could not be convinced that the North Pole is surrounded by a sea of ice. The nearer she got to it, the warmer it was. The only way of explaining conditions as she experi- enced them was that the North Pole is situated in lake of fire. MT. Waid was evidently dissatisfied with the climate that he experienced this summer Most of us were This is the twenty-seventh year of the wri- ter's stay in Alaska, and he can truthfully say this summer has been the worst, and he has probably seen three or four half as bad. But judg- ing from newspaper reports, has not the climate been more or less chaot- ic all over the country and is it not surprising that Alaska has been no exception? Even with all ot the drawbacks of this summer we had dahlias in bloom in our gardens in July and other flowers and vege- tables were equally advanced. Gar dens are planted generally in South eastern Alaska at about the first of May. A killing frost appears any where from the first to the tenth of October. Our winters here are not So severe as in Southern Michigan.