The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-22
Alaska Publicity Bureau Is Needed,
 Declares N00nan
D e famin g Artic es Are Printed Which Should
 Be Quickly Denied

A responsible Alaska Publicity Bureau, preferably located at Ju- neau and sponsored by the govern ment, has become very necessary, in the opinion of Dan Noonan, veteran Alaskan commercial trav- eler representing Barlin and Sil- yer, who recently returned from a seven-weeks trip to the Westward and the Interior.
 In addition to the vast benefit to the Territory through favorable publicity, such a bureau would ma terially aid in the development of Alaska by official correction of false and unfavorable statements, many of which have been printed in the States recently, particularly with re- gard to the Matanuska Colonization project, Mir Noonan said.
 Writer Attacked
 MT. Noonan directed attention to a signed article which appeared in the Topeka. Kan, Capital, in which w. Pledger Brown presented an at tack on the Matanuska Colony and general conditions in Alaska. In his article MT Brown claims that there neevr has been any farming in Alaska nor is there today nor will there by any in the future" He wrote: Government experi- mental stations, operating under the direction of the Department of Agriculture, have been attempting to raise cattle and to grow foodstuffs in Alaska for the last 35 years, without success" He also said that few of the colonists will be in AL aska more than year, and reports that Alaskan wolf packs roam the country in groups of 50 to 200"
 He-Mon'S Country
 MT Brown goes on the say that Juneau, the capital, and the larg- est city with a population of 4,000 has IS miles of paved streets, but the old wooden sidewalks of from tier Alaska still remain" He con cludes his article with the obser- vation that Alaska today is he mans country To only the strong go the spells. The weakling bet 1 ter stay at home"
 Publicity of that sort, MT. Noonar stated, should be refuted by offic- ial statements. A signed article by MT. Noonan, in support of the Mat snuska Colony, appeared in the February issue of the Alaska Sports man.
 Mir. Noonan left Juneau on De cember 31 on the first commercial tour of the year. He spent New Years Eve in Skagway and New Years Day in Sitka. Te travelec direct to Fairbanks, arriving there shortly after the quarantine be- came effective. At the end of three weeks, shortly after the quarantine was lifted. Mir Noonan travelled south over the Alaska Railroad te Anchorage and Matanuska.
 Matanuskd O. K.
 At Matanuska MT. Noonan stayed overnight for the first time in his many visits to the colony. He stated that there was formerly no place to stop nearer than Anchorage, bui that the Valley City Hotel, operat. ed by Ralph Horton, is now oper for business at Matanuska. Int colony also has three stores, MT Noonan said, operated by I. Kos. losky and Sons, w. Fielder, and Der Weeda. A big opening dance" wa! scheduled to be held in the recently constructed colony gymnasium or the largest dance floor in Alaska he said
 MT. Noonan spent four days a Cordova, where he had the misfor, tune to fall and fracture two ribs Cordova has very bright outlook for the coming year, he reported with no labor troubles in the off ing. The fishermen seem satisfied with recent price agreements, ht l: said. Both the crab cannery anc the clam cannery have been work. Ing all winter although the busy season in the clam canning indus. try will not arrive until about nxet May.
 Although Republican organiza tions throughout the entire route travelled by MT. Noonan are un. usually active, he said that he be. lieves that ~the man in the stree is still in favor of the New Deal.