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MORE MItnuaP'RHHKKTATlOK
Alaskans are slowly but surely setting f«xl up on misrepresenta
tions. It seems that when a writer feels the urge to do a little -romanc
lng on some subject on whick he knows nothing, Alaska furnishes an
over-ready theme.
In the past we have grown somewhat accustomed 1o seeing articles
In Eastern publications, that were a bit wide of the truth, and have ex
cused them on the grounds that the writer, or the publisher, or both,
were too far away to know better. We. might stand for Mr Brisbane
grffvely informing bis readers that the running time for the U. S. Mail
via dog team from Nenana. to Fairbanks had been cut from 21 days to
two and one half hours by flying machine; and excuse Arthur because
possibly he had no means ol knowing that it is only a matter of 60 miles
between the two mentioned points.
During the past week, however, twe Seattle Star, pulled the prize
story, and the Star is right at the Gateway to Alaska and should know
better. The story in question was worthy of the best eastern effort
along the line of Sunday Supplement Alaska Fiction. It had to do with
t.he publishing of the first newspaper inside the Arctic Circle, and drag
ged in the faithful team of malamut.es that carried the cold-stricken driv
er into the friendly shelter of the roadhouse; the high orices of one dol
lar per copy for the paper; and last, but not least, the scooping of all
of Alaska on the San Francisco quake and tlie sending of the papers con
taining the story from the place of publication to Nome. We questin.j
whether there is a single fact in the entire yarn*, and the saddest part
of it all is that it was published by a Seattle newspaper with all the data
for checking untruths easily available.
In the first place there was never a newspaper published inside the
Arctic Circle, unless it is the little missionary sheet that has been pub
lished at Point Barrow.
Fort Gibbon is away this side of the Circle, and to the best of our
knowledge. Jack London was never in Fort Gibbon, and never down the
Yukon further than Dawson, Circle City or Eagle.
The San Francisco fire and quake occurred in the Spring, long
After the trails bs»d gone, and even in the best of weather, a mail team
could not go from Gibbon to Nome in less than two weeks Considering
the fact that the Nome Nugget had extras on the street within an hour
after the earthquake, as did the Fairbanks News, the story of scooping
Alaska is a trifle wide. For the benefit of our misguided Contemporary
let us state that the first newspaper ever published in Alaska was the
Yukon Press, published and edited by Gordon Betties. We might add
that the outfit had only body, type, and consequently all of the head lines.
Aa well as the title of the paper, had to be carved out of birchwood.
No, it was not delivered by dog team in 60 weather, nor did it
co«t an ounce of dast per copy; Jack London and Rex Bench and Robert
W. Service were n<*t on the staff—it was Just a -newspaper, not a ro
mance.—Alaska Weekly.
BRIGHT OUTVjOOK FOR TOURISTS
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That the year 1924 will exceed all previous years in t.he number of
tourists who will "See Alaska" is generally admitted. And it will also
record the coming to Southwestern Alaska of a greater number of trav
elers than ever before. Adequate and comfortable accommodations will
be afforded the tourist who may leave the steamer at Cordova and travel
by train to Chltfna and from there to Fairbanks over the Richardson
Highway. The transportation company that is making it easy and de
sirable for travelers to go inland from Chltina has made every arrange
ment necessary for comfort and enjoyment, under the personal super
vision of President James Galen and Manager Robert Sheldon. Re
turning tourists can come out' over the Government Railroad to Anchor
age or Seward and at either point again board one of the commodious
steamers that are on the run. Or the trip may be reversed and travel
ers can go to the westward first and return over the highway from Fair
banks to Chitina and Cordova. Superintendent F. A. Hansen gives
assurance that trains over the Copper River tc Northwestern railway will
be frequent' and adequate, as the summer traffic demands, and a trip over
this scenic route will be one of the features that will be long treasured
by the one fortunate enough to make it.
Referring to northern traffic the coming season ihe Railway and
Marine News says:
"With the commercial traffic of the last sixty days to and from Al
aska .especially good the greatest optimism is expressed by the steamship
According to th«
■*ts will make the
before. The Al
operator* over the outlook for the passenger tourist,
bookings it looks as if a greater number of the tat
round trip from both Seattle and Vancouver than evt
aska Steamship Company will operate its usual number of v<
both Southeastern and Southwestern Alaska. Although there
three operating companies in the northern service as against a
seven some years ago. the three companies this year will have .
combined total capacity and a better service than at any t.m
past."—Cordova Times.
VALl'E OF NEWSPAPER TO TOWN
Recently Dean M. Lyle Spencer of the School of Journalism of the
[diversity of Washington, was a. visitor at Skagway, and while there,
at the request of the editor or the Skagway AlaakaD. wrote an editorial
ror the paper. He chose as his subject the Utle that appears above, and
this is what he wTote:
“Few people in the* average city appreciate the value of a news
paper to a town. Like flowers, they are appreciated most bv those who
do not have them. Like mothers, they are wanted aao*l when they are
“Most people look on a newspaper as the business of a single indiv
idual. If it thrives, that is the owner’s business. If it fails, that also
the owneT’e business, As a matter of fact, the success or failure of
a paper is a matter of grave concern to an entire town.
“If it were not for our newspapers, rumor and gossip would run
riot over the world. Everyone kDows bow a simple question asked by
someone often is made a statement by another, how that statement is
distorted by a second or enlarged by a third, and bow it sometimes goes
on and on until people do not know what to believe. Sometimes 9uch
a story gets so bie that the only way it can be stopped is by someone
coining out in the newspaper and stating the truth. Such copditions we
should have constantly, if it were not for our newspapers.
“Newspapers, too, are the best advertisement a city has in the out
side world. Other cities judge a town by the kind of a newspaper it
has. If it is supported well, given the news and the advertising patron-1
age it ought to have, it thrive* and is able to present an appearance of
prosperity for the town to the outside world. If it does not thrive out
siders are inclined to look on '..he town as undesirable to live in. and so
move on to other cities.
“Newspapers are also our chief source of information. Most of
our reading matter after we leave school comes from the papers. What
we know about President Harding’s tour, about the struggle between
France and Germany in the Ruhr, about Henry Ford as a candidate for
President, and about other national and world problems, comes from the
papers. Thomas Jefferson once said that if he had to have govern
ment without newspapers or newspapers without government, he would
take the newspapers, because through them tie F-lt the state could be
run with at lea-st fair success.
"If some of us appreciated more fully the value of our newspapers,
we would make greater efforts to see that they get the news and adver
tising, and so bec.ome successful. Modern society vannot get along
without newspapers any more than it can without schools and churches.”
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San Francisco—Motorists charg
ed wit.h intoxication have caused '
numerous deaths in this vicinity re
cently. and in the campaign against
i eckless driving Dr. W. O. Ginsburg
an X-ray specialist, has offered the
,'olice a “booze detector.”
The machine, according to Dr.
Ginsburg, has been known to physi
cians for some time aud is called the
i.ietabnlar. It is a simple apparatus
which determines the quantity of
oxygen consumed by a patient.
When a man is drunk, and how to
prove it, has long bean a problem
in courts. This is Dr. Ginsberg's
explanation of how to apply the
inetabular to the question of intoxi
cation:
"It is known to the medical sci
ence that a person under tlie influ
quantities of oxygen than he does
normally. This is natural, for al
cohol is a great heat producer and
calls for great quantities of oxygen
to equalize the consumption of heat.
All that is necessary to determine
the degree of intoxication is to find
out the heat production going on in
the body by the intake of oxygen.
The metabular does this. The sus
pect is fed pure oxygen through a
nozzle. The machine registers how
much is taken into the system. Com
parison with the normal intake
which can be made when the sus
p.et is sober. will establish b
doubt whether he was under l
fluence of liquor sit the time *
The city authorities have
cMisideration Dr. Ginsburg’s
to install meiabular machines
It was formerly the ci
her* for drivers suspected of ii
ration to Ik* taken to the emer;
hospital, where they were exai
by a physician, who signed a c«
cate expressing his opinion of
condition. At present, however
police take such a prisoner dire
headquarters, where, if he is
t< show evidence of drunken
he is booked on a charge of dr
while intoxicated, a felony. Ne
method has proved satisfactory
checking the evil, according tc
bee officials. They point out
often men too far gone in liqui
drive safely are able to appear s
when subjected to a medical e:
ination. and also that the opinir
policemen usually is discou
when the case are brought u
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