The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-05-03
RADIO SPEECH
 BY FL0RY HAS
 STRONG APPEAL
Alaska Broadcast Over N. B. C. Network Brings
 Flood of Requests

Agriculture and Forestry in Al aska." a radio talk delivered in Washington by Commis S on e Charles H. Flory and broadcast over the N. B. C. network of 35 stations, has proved to be one of the most popular talks put out by the department, according to ad- vices received at the office of Com missioner Flory in this city.
 Requests for printed copies have been received in the Washington offices from 25 States scattered fiom the Atlantic States to the Rocky Mountains. Persons living in wyoming, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Virginia Colorado, New York, Kansas, Mis- souri, Georgia, Minnesota, Connec- ticut. Maryland, Iowa, Nebraska, North Carolina, Rhode Island South Dakota Mississippi, Texas and Oklahoma have requested cop ies, expressing interest in the Ter ritory and desire to get more in- formation about it.
 Text of Address
 The address, which is of interest to Alaskans, follows:
 Alaska, Americas last frontier is land of surprises.
 "There is no region under the American flag which is less under stood today than that vast Terri tory of ours in the Far North known as the land of the Mid night Sun
 "The very name, Alaska i'm mediately pictures in the minds oi many of you frozen land covered with perpetual snow and ice, in habited only by polar bears ano EskimoS.
 But Alaska has something be- sides fur clad Eskimos, dog teams and 65 below zero.
 Alaska is a world in the variety of it's climates, it's lands, its wat CTS and it's resources. It has near ly as many islands as the Empire of Japan, and a vast continental mainland with great mountain ranges and valleys; rolling plateauS and great lowland plains. There are navigable streams many thou ands of miles in length. Contrary to popular conception it's deep pro tected harbors are open to naviga- tion at all times of the year with the one exception at Nome on Der ing Sea.
 "It is a land where the white man with his family can live~ ir comfort with most of the conven- fences and many of the opportuni- ties found in old older and more settled communities in the States.
 Climate Is Varied
 "It is an empire equaling in size a fifth of the area of continental United States, and is so far flung in extent that, if it could be lifted up bodily and placed on top of oul Union, the waters of the Atlantic would bathe it on the East while the Pacific Ocean would break upon the shores of the Aleutian Islands.
 Tn some parts it has winters as mild as those of Virginia and in others the winters are no more severe than those of Montana or North Dakota. It has summers as hot at midday as in parts of Cali fornia and so comfortable cool at night that one welcomes blankets.
 Tt has seasons when the sun shines at midnight and the chick ems do not know when to go to roost and winter days so short and dark that electric lights must burn continuously or the roosters forget to crow in the morning and the hens do not know when to get up and go to wok.
 We find jungles as dense as the tropics, mighty forests of vir- gin timber little touched by the lImberman's ax; treeless wastes as as the Saraha Desert but which will support millions oi towering mountains cap ped with eternal snow within which lie hidden gold and silver and cop per and other mineral; and broad fertile valleys awaiting the settlers plow. Over plateau and hillside