The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-09-24

and Mendenhall glaciers was re- treating and that in all probability the next five years should see an immense dissolution of the scenic beauty of the glaciers. But very likely in twenty years they will all start advancing again, he said lice ages. it would seem, go in l25- ySar-cycles, and this has beenSre- treating slowly since 1859"
 Interviewed last evening, Father Hubbard said that his main .pur- pose. aside from the scientific trend of his visit, was ito show in a prac- tical way just what Alaska could offer tourists of high social stand ing It was to accomplish this, he -aid, that the Father Hubbard Tour was inaugurated this year by the Alaska Steamship Company. Father Hubbard, accompanied by 86 tour ists, this year toured Southeast AL aska and made a special visit to the Matanuska Valley. It was intimated by Hubbard last night that this tour un d CT his superintendence would very likely become an an- nual event.
 Up To Transportation
 If the transportation companies really wish to cater to the same type of tourists as travel to Eu- rope, South America and the Ra- hamas,' he said, and if they make them feel that they are not sec ondary condition to freight, it would stimulate travel for the years to come. is to be hoped that schedules will be so arranged that passengers will not arrive in cities like Juneau in the middle of the night, and depart as soon as the freight is unloaded"
 Summarizing his Alaskan visit this year, Father Hubbard glean- ed his usual number of 'Firsts":
 Ed Levin and Ken Chisholm climbed Pavlof Volcano for the first time" he said. We took the first organized group of tourists to Un- cle Sans first attempt at coloniza- tion, visiting the Matanuska Val ley and were very favorably inn pressed with the way the project was being handled We were the first to fly over the famous Bears Claws, which we accomplished in PAA plane, flown by Alex Holden" I.4 Father Hubbard referred to that plane trip-a flight over the glacial ice-cap undertaken one afternoon azg The most noteworthy achieve ment of the summer"
 Safety of Aviation
 Coming so soon after the adverse publicity to Alaskan aviation in cured by the unfortunate deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, and the further blow to aviation in the loss of the Hines party and the crash of Percy Hubbard, we consider that we demonstrated the real safety of aviation in Alaska" he declared We took flight thoroughly haz- ardous in itself. flying over a no- n1an's-land of rock and ice, where no forced landings were possible. :"
 Hubbard will go directly to the University of Santa Clara, where his findings will be carefully check ed over before they are released for scientific information. Here, also, his new Alaskan pictures will have their premier showing on October 8.
 The generous use of Fred Ord- ways photographic equipment en- abled us to turn out developed pie lures of our own work said Hub bard. We took over 30,000 feet of motion pictures and about 2,000 stiIl pictures, to add to our rather im- pressive. total of material taken in previous years. Our films have al- ready been sent to New York where positive prints will be forwarded to Santa Clara University and there assembled into lecture form"
 Uncanny Success
 The Rev. HI ard attributed much of the success of his expedi- ton to his own .'uncanny success in predicting weather.
 Wisely predicting the rainy season as being general over all North America. we came to Juneau in late August merely on the gam ble that the weather would be as I had predicted it-fair and mild the first part of September. There were only two days of rain and we accomplished everything we had Intended"
 While Hubbard was here, his book 100 Pictures of Little Known AL aska,' was released and had a gratifying sale" in Juneau, where 1t has been on sale at the Venetian