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’ The Alaska Weekly Post
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GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Elmer A. Friend. Editor
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NEW PUBLICITY AGENT IS O.K.
Alaska has had one or two publicity agents during the
ist few months and what did they accomplish .' Nothing.
>solutely nothing. Publicity is the greatest stunt in the
isiness world. The United States government recognizes
lat fact and the great success of the Libertx Loans, Ur -
ross funds, war stamps and many others are proof that
• ublieity pays and pays much.
E.J. White, Alaska’s new publicity agent, a thorough
ewspaperman. He knows the publicity game for he per
mps. through the several papers he has been connected;
vith, has shown that publicity will kill or allow to live. I
s not the street oracle going about a city’s through!ares
;iiat is the publicity expert, it is the newspaper, for the
teople read it. None will deny that a newspaper can do a
great deal towards building up a community, a project o:
a man. None will deny that r little truth against the same
will have the effect of killing it. Mr. White, quick to dis
cern the importance of the labor situation in Alaska, is
now advertising in Alaska papers and those in the States,
regarding the needs of the territory. Mr. While is in (act
making his publicity office a clearing house for the turn
ishing of labor to many sections, learning what classof la
bor is needed, the wages, living conditions, etc. He has
touched at the fundamental principles of publicity because
he knows what those principles are. True, he is having a
hard time perhaps, owing to war conditions, but he is giv
ing publicity to Alaska, the productive territory of Uncle
Sam’s domain. Many cannot come now, but they will come
and those who are going out will be glad to again turn
buck in their wanderings and return to Alaska.
Several papers are trying to connect Mr. White with
political factions. He is connected with one political tac’.
ion, if such it may be called, and that is the great organs*
zation" Alaska boosters". Mr. White has no political ambit
•ions. He is a Democrat, a Southern Democrat, by Gad sir,
but for years he has been an Alaskan boosting Democrat
representing the true democracy of this land, live in it,
grow up with it, stick to it. make your money in it, spend
the money in it— and no doubt Mr. White will die in it—
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but that will vet be many years to come.
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Mr. White is Alaska’s true publicity agent, director of
publicity and he will get the results for all sections, alike.
ONLY SLIGHT FALLING OFF IN TRADE FOR 1918
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American foreign trade fell off slightly in the fiscal
year 1918, the total being $8,874,000,000 compared with
$8,949,000,000 in 1917, according to figures made public by
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Depart
ment of Commerce.
The imports for 1918 show an increase of $287,000,000
reaching a total of $2,946,000,000. Exports, however, show
a decrease of $362,000,000, the total for 1918 being $5,928,
000,000 as compared with $6,290,000,000 in 1917. The ex
cess of exports over import amount to $2,982,000,000 in
1918 against $3,631,000,000 in 1917.
Exports and imports both show a falling off for June
1918. as compared with May and April. Imports totaled
$260,000,000 as compared with $323,000,000 in May, while
exports amounted to $485,000,000 as against $551,000,000
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in May. . , ,
Imports of gold during the fiscal year amounted to
( nlv $124,000,000 as compart'd with $977,000,000 in 191 <,
while exports were valued at $191,000,000 compared wiU
•'292,000,000 in 1917.
Silver imports amounted to $70,000,000 in 1918 again
-t $33,000,000 in 1917, and silver exports increased from
; 78,000,000 in 1917 to $139,000,000 in 1918.
It appears perfectly safe to predict that there w.n
never be a third battle of the Marne.
When we read that Miss Jaiuscheck, a Czech spy.
i hailing from America has been sentenced to death at \ i
tuna, we wonder how many thouasnd German spies now
in the United States would be shot for greater cause if we
(adopted Teuton methods.
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i Never worry. Ihe war will not kill baseoal!, hilt, liki
1 sugar, it requires, for the time being, that we must get
along with less of a good thing.
Report has it that Ludenriorff is furious over the dis
astrous turn of affairs in northern France. Brace up,
Ludy, old sport, for the present trouble is only a prelude
to that which is in store for you.
The Cordova morning Herald is one of the iatest pap
i ers coming to the exchange table, or rather it did come fm
i few weeks until the copies became mixed with other
freight. 1 >i';t the Herald is a newsy seven column, .four
>age newspaper, is well patronized by the wide awake
merchants of the Copper River Section and under the able
nanaccumnt of J. \\ ilhur f\"aru, should be a success.
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M.S. Perkins, formerly of the Daily Empire at Juiv
, au, is now the publisher of the Petersburg Report and
his capable young man, energetic and persevering, will
dve the citizens of that town a newsy article, for he
•nows how.
NON— MINERIAL LAND ENTRIES IN ALASKA.
Senate Bill No. 950, providing for the nomnineriai
>ntries of land with drawn, classified, or reported as con
lining coai, phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas, or asphal
tic minerals in Alaska, has passed the senate, and is now
lefore the house for action. The bill, in substance, is the
>ame as the Act of July 17,1914 (38 Stat. 509), entitled,
"An act to provide for agricultural entry of land with"
Irawn, classified, or reported as containing phosphate, ni
trate, potash oil, gas, or asphaltic minerals," which it is
limed to extend to Alaska.
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FREE SURVEY OF ALASKA MOMESTEADS.
The free survey of homesteads where subdivisions!
townships surveys have not been extended over the land
embraced within the entries, is authorized by house resol
ution No. 8563. The bill has passed both houses of congress
and is now a law.
The act provides that entrymen may, after due com
pliances with the terms of the homestead law in the mat
ter of residence, cultivation, and improvements, submit to
the register and receiver of the local land office, evidence
as to such compliance, duly corroborated by two witnesses,
and if it appears that the homesteader is in position to j
make final proof, the surveyor general of the territory
will issue proper instructions for the survey of the land so
entered, without expense to the entrymen, who may, there j
-after, submit final proof as in similar entries of surveyed
lands.
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