The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31
PEN FULL REPORT
 OF JOURNEY
Territory Is Publitized by National Editorial As-
 soeiation Visitors

Alaska received millions of words of free publicity-(most of It gooo' some bad)-as a result of the vlslt to the Territory last summer ol 275 members of the National Eol- torial Association.
 The Association came to Alaska for it's annual convention, travel inc on the steamer Aleutian, which left Seattle June 13. The edltors' most of them representing small town weekly newspapers, spent two weeks cruising along the Alaska coast and travelling inland to Mt. Mckinley National Park and fair- banks.
 .Juneau's welcome included a lun- cheon at the Baranof Hotel arrang- ed by the Chamber of Commerce. Northbound the editors spent a 1uii day here. visiting the Alaska Ju- neau mine, the Territorial Museum and Mendenhall Glacier. The Vis- itors stopped for only a few hours southbound.
 Every Editor Writes
 Almost every editor, after he got home to his typewriter, wrote ser ies of articles on his Alaska trip Following are excerpts from few of the accounts which have found their way back to The Empire;
 Ruth Willard Robinson, in Pubic Spirit. Hatboro, Pennsylvania:
 Here we began to get a new look at Alaska, as all kinds oi com modities from a babys high char to a Packard car--snow white, al that-were loaded into the hold. Ar plane parts went in, pieces of ma chinerv. crated furniture, and boxes and boxes of foodstuffs.
 Look said we, they have to get things from Seattle!--discovery number one for a pair of 'Chee- chakos' (Alaskan for tender1ooU And we began to wonder what 1t would be like to wait weeks for the things you wanted, as a matter of course.
 Steerage Passengers
 Also coming aboard, up forward, were the steerage passengers. Flll- pinos going to Alaska for the sum- mer to work in the mines and can- neries. Americans, many of them college boys bound also for a sum- mer job, and a motley assortment of older men for whom gold is still the lure-forty years after the Yu- ken gold rush"
 Bea Alcorn, in The Republican, Bulletin, Rawlins, Wyoming:
 There is a general feeling among the white residents up there that too much is being done for the In- dian. In many instances govern ment agencies supply free lunches while the white children in their own schools, must either pay or go
 About Jobs
 "The acute situation growing out of the universal belief that Alaska has a job for every man is being solved temporarily by many CCC camps. So many young men drifted up there without any money that their care became problem to the little communities.
 We had approached this great wonderland expecting to be disap- pointed, for each and every person who had visited Alaska gave glow ing accounts of the beautiful scen- cry. of the magnificence of the snow capped mountains, of the mirror like waters, of the cordiality ano friendliness of the residents there of the many wonders to be seer and found in this land with which so very few are acquainted.
 We were of the opinion that il was being over-rated; however, oul trip proved that everything that had been said was absolutely true There are not enough superlativeS in the English language to ade- uuately describe all that we saw
 Frank Jacqua, in The Humboldt Gowa) Independent:
 Just Like Other People
 'As we filed down the gangplanl the first impression was that tht people of Ketchikan, with the ex. ception of the Indians, are in look speech and dress exactly like those in the States.
 ''The only difference is the ever present Indian women with thei souvenirs. These women sit fla on the sidewalks usually, with thei wares spread about them. The! are coppery or black, with heavy straight black hair. They seldom speak. They have totem poles, larg' and small, but ran mainly to moo casins, beaded articles and basket woven from native grasses. The, know how to charge too. A toten pole a foot long and fairly wei