The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-04-14
BRISBANE ON ALASKA.

Go see Alaska!," advises Arthur Brisbane is syndicated column Today" appearing in new apers throughout the country recently. He evident as moved to his comment after reading copy of u pecial Development Edition of The Empire, oecal permission of the King Features syndica nc, The Empire herewith reprints MT. Brsban as follows:
 See Alaska, ana at the sametme see the whole United States Go through the Pan- anna Canal on a big boat and see what men can do when they use nations power or travel by rail studying the cities of the country. or take your car, which goes every where and stops where you choose, or fly, and see the world from above.
 SEE ALASKA a magnificent empire far away in the Northwest. See what Seward bought for the United States for $7,200O0O A purchase that was called Stewards Folly They took small change like $7,20000o serious in those days. But it was profit able folly" Alaska has yielded $4l9,79l,Ooo in gold more than fifty times Aaskas cost alone The Juneau Empire, which ought to know, estimates that Alaska has been worth to the United States two thousands five hundred million dollars, after subtract ing the cost price. The self-supporting reindeers alone will more than pay for Alaska.
 Many recent arrivals are in Alaska ex- ploring, searching, prospecting washing gold" and many more on the way as Juneau celebrates the sixty-seyenth ami versary of Alaskas purchase with new gold rush.
 You can find many things better than gold in Alaska-rich land for one thing, beautiful romantic homesites and water power that will be valuable forever, unlike the gold mine that runs out.
 Those that have youth, energy time to spare and enough money to take them there and back might well make that Alaska trip even though they should find nothing to add to the contents of their pocketbook. trip across this broad continent and up and down in it will improve any American.
 If you go to Alaska from anywhere east or southeast of Chicago don't fail to see the wonderful Century of Progress Ex- position that will soon open for the second season.
 However you go, and whenever you go to the Pacific Coast don't fail to see all of that Coast from the northern boundary of Mexico to the southern boundary of Can ada. You can go by rail or automobile all the way from San Diego on the south to British Columbia on the north. Your auto mobile will take you more than a thousand miles along the edge of the Pacific Ocean, the most beautiful road in the world with which no other can even fairly com pare
 And remember that the Pacific Ocean is the important ocean, destined in future to be as far in importance above the Atlantic as the Atlantic is now above the Mediter- ranean. The latter once was the center of everything while the Atlantic was feared by mariners that had no compass, and the Pacific was not even known to the Western world
 Other writers, editorial and special have co nented favoraby on the Territory using mater aken from The Empires special edition as 'asis for their remarks. Newspapers through, United States in Canada and Flaw ave it notice. All of this publicity has value Juneau and to all Alaska. None of it is m ar r-reaching and more effective than MT. Brsbar whose following is probably wide, if not wio han any other featured editorial writer It would be fine thing for us if he co e induced to pay us visit. If he could see himself our country. vast domain with it's alm potentially valuable natural resourc hackled so largely by long range administrati he results would undoubtedly be beneficial to ntire country well to Alaska. An invitat rom the proper sources might lead him to ma summer visit to this magnificent empire far aw . the Northwest"