The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31


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 Miss Mae Bashore, in the West Schuylkill Pennsylvania Press and Pine Grove Herald:
 Alaskan Hospitality
 q believe I have neglected to mention the extreme cordiality and hospitality of the residents of this land we are visiting Never have l seen people so genuinely glad to welcome a group of strangers as in this instance where more than 200 persons coming from 31 states pour into these small towns for few hours visit. Wherever we go there are welcoming committees on hand to greet Us, and at once they make us feel as though we are among friends of long standing
 Here in this far outpost of the United States exists democracy of which we in the s ta tes little dream. AS the purser on our boat explained-you cannot judge an AL askan by his clothes. He may be very ccarsely dressed in rough clothes, yet may be richer than a Park Avenue. pent house resident. And everyone calls everyone else by oiS 0r her first name :"
 E. H. Hanway, in the Casper wy oming) Tribune Herald:
 Speaking of the Territory, there is much clamor in Alaska to have hat vast country admitted to statehood so that it may have more voic in self-g government Visitors lre urged to have their Congress- men approve such measures but they ppreciate that they have a long ight to win the Congress to their way of thinking With Slightly nore than 6000O population in the Territory, half of them being In- Hans, it's area is nearly one-fifth f that of the United States :. To the Glacier
 Our party was driven about 12 niles to our first glimpse of the Mendenhall glacier. Not as large as he Columbia, or many other glac- CTS in Alaska it, nevertheless, covers | large area despite it's being said 70 be dead glacier and receding instead of moving forward.
 "The busses had been standing in the sun for some little time be- lore the arrival of the boat and when loaded with about 20 passeng- ITS, the discontinue of the inside heat was almost to point of suf- | location as ventilation came only | from a small window in the front of the car. Several passengers all most passed out before the glacier was reached. Stepping out of tor rid bus to view mountainous ice l pack, was quite contrast
 Homes in the city are built on the steep slopes, and well kept lawns and flower gardens are planted in small patches The city is working to modernize itself and its stores reflect their progressive owner ships
 We were amazed at the amount of water in the swiftly moving streams that was going to waste for no reason to impound it or harness it for power or irrigation and we thought of what use could be made of it if it were available to this part of the country.
 How High?
 Tt was surprising to the excur- sionists from western United States that no higher elevation than 2,950 feet was reached in the 470 miles journey to Fairbanks in view of the very mountainous terrain, but it must be considered that these noun tains rise from sea level. one of the tourists was heard to ask the conductor How high is sea level, up here'?"
 ''The question most generally ask ed by visitors is whether the Mat anuska project is a success. Of those we interviewed, the question was unanswered From all appear ances the colony is a thriving farni- ing community, scattered over 100 square miles of the valley and nest led among rugged, picturesque mountains with live glaciers visible