The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-07-25
ALASKA AS A HOME FOR A LIFETIME

In one of the ablest and best considered presen- tations of Alaska that it has been lot to read the Commencement Address of Charles H Flory to the graduating class of the Alaska College, the eminent citizen of Juneau set forth the idea that it takes lifetime to accomplish the work of an individual in the North just it does elsewhere The development of Alaska to the extent of her potentiaities depends upon the acceptance of that idea If a sufficient number of people will devote lifetime to the work of making fortunes in the North and doing what intelligence and industry and thrift might suggest the Territory will in the of time take her place State in the Union and those who do the work will reap rewards substantial and satisfactory similar efforts might attain elsewhere MT. F1ory put it this way:
 Too many in the past have to AL aska with desire to get rich quickly, ex- pecting after a brief temporary sojourn, to return to the States. They have found that in Alaska the making of fortune is usually lifetime job requiring experience, initiative and industry To most of these individuals dsiusonment has followed and in their Encouragement they have seen mo- thing in the future of Alaska and many have gone away forever embittered. Hap
 oily, this condition of affairs is rapidly
 changing Instead of the itinerant seeker after easy fortune find more and more permanent towns with families and child
 who intend to make Alaska their future
 home Those who have become enlight-
 ened have settled into the harness and are proceeding to help develop the country.
 On account of lack of space shall not print Mir Florys convincing statement of the opportunities that present themselves to those who elect to live their lives in Alaska, doing the work that is here to do. But at this period of the year, when so many high school graduates considering the question of school in which they might prepare themselves for lifes work, it is well worth while that we follow MT Florys discussion of the Alaska nd wbat to he Nortb and that it will for those who avail themselves of its advantages He said:
 Our greatest and most important
 -the youth of our country is one which
 must not be overlooked in the analysis and
 appraisal of problem. The develop
 ment of all other resources pale into n-
 significance unless have the wise guid-
 ance of well trained and thoroughly equipped
 men and women to carry Upon their
 shoulders-upon the shoulders of the young
 men and women who sit before me, and
 who are about to go forth into the great
 complexity of our modern civilization-must
 rest the burden of the ultimate solution of
 Alaska's problems and it's future prosperity.
 It is you, and those who will follow after
 you who will carry forward the banner of
 Alaska in our onward and upward march
 to economical success and freedom.
 This institution is not only an intellectual
 training ground for the individual students
 who fortunate to bear away today
 their credentials as having successfully com
 pleted their courses, but also the intellectual
 center for all progressive educational ac-
 tivities of the Territory. It has also another
 great function of equal importance to the
 Territory It is the leader to whom we must
 look for encouraging guiding and coordi-
 hating the underlying forces which have
 bearing on the development of Alaska It will search out the basic facts in biology
 chemistry, geology and other sciences and then teach how to these facts in
 their practical application in agriculture