Seward daily gateway., 1929-07-22
WHY THIS DISCRIMINATION?

WHY THIS DISCRIMINATION!
 From the appearance of extensive and colored articles in number of current magazines circulating in Alaska dealing with the construction of the Hudson Bay railroad from La Pas, Man., to Fort Churchill, It is apparent that the general ignorance With res pect to Alaska which besets the average man m the States has reached the editorial desk of many ot these magazines.
 'Farthest North Railroad" "A railroad penetrating the great Kewatn Shield with it's vast hoard of miner al riches" "A revolution in Railroad constructions, and kindred hgh-light titles adOrn these articles.
 Compared to the Alaska Railroad the Hudson Bay project is like the Chickaoon coal spur Compared to the riches along The Alaska Railroad the great muskeg country stretching from La Pas to Churchill IS but a weird speculation.
 What is described as "the strangest werdest rail- road construction undertaken" will require other descriptive articles later Like the Edmonton Great Waterways, the rOadbed IS constructed by filling keg with brush and muck, allowing it to freeze and lay ing rails upon 1t.
 Which recalls what happened when the summer suns got busy with the E. G. w. 10 years ago. thawed out the roadbed and caused provincial parliamentary investigation at Edmonton
 But we are not undertaking governmental scan- da We are making an effort to enghten the editors of American Magazines who have turned down illustrated articles on The Alaska Railroad because despite the excellent manner ln which they written they were not prepared to handle such natter The correspondents "no labored gratis for Uncle Sam in boosting his real railroad asked the magazines to pay for the matter No
 
 ce sam has never seen his way clear to establish Nat ulal resources Department for the railroad and put goou press agent to work telling the world what he had o barter 10 the investor and the settler Rather Wash s0on anucpated that simply because the government was the cmet proprietor in all things Alaskan ncud ing the heavest investor expressed in the 4o5 miles oI nrst-cass railroad costing some S7 GOO OOO to d+ IL was thought that the masses would rally to its od ; V1ndlcatlng governmental ownership ~ -
 Like The Alaska Railroad the Hudson Raw on+or Rllse Is gove1nmentaly owned But unlike The AasLo
 loao OCtaWa IS out to cooperate with the nrivato c'zen or Canada in making the thing a success o 1t VIII oe necessary to dig the track ont of th a lew months hence and ferry trains across mnskaaS but It IS rather disconcerting to pick m a maoa Ae currently circulated in Alaska and see naoe af9or page containing extravagant boosts for foreign en- te1pI1se when there is so much more merit ;n Th Sl Alaska Railroad enterprise. N
 0ome correspondents discovered that you co1ld see the sun at Churchill all but an hour and half dr Ing each "A In summer. A man may travel bv Pul,man n pace car rom Seward to Fairbanks over road per- nl1tlng of trunk-line speed take little automobile r1oe out few miles to the brow of a hill and uatoh the sun for "A hours if he is in such mood to E o'e ne VIII behold scenery that beggars Switzerland the Canadian Rockies Glacier National Park the Sier, ras the Apalachian chain and other reputed scenic Spots all rolled into Instead of log shacks across ahd as 1orbldd1ng the tundra wastes of the Arctic oiope' ne VIII Ind steamheated apartments or suites wlIn oath automobile service to points of nterost .nd oenolu Che sourdough stop scaling fish to doff his oVerans ana don his "soup and fish, clothes and nro sue as toastaser at banquent for the President If the United States foreign potentate He may dis cuss literature poetry wth the lady dealing off the 9rN' in discover that she IS 2