| Show THE TRUTH ABOUT ALASKA Sip special S ecial correspondence seattle washington march 10 at last we have a bit of the truth about alaska for something like two years the most unfair unwarranted and absolutely untruth ful attack has been made against ane best interests of the territory simply because some disgruntled politicians and muck raking papers saw or thought they saw something worthy of cr criticism 1 in the laudatory efforts of some millionaires to develop a small portion of the territory in all of this tirade the paries assailed have had very little to say and the alaskan side of the controversy has really never been given the saturday evening post of philadelphia in its issue of february has for its leading article what Is the matter with alaska by rex beach the clever and brilliant novelist who has lived most of his life in alaska mr beach knows the game he writes his story from the interior he has traversed it from north to south and from east to west in dog sledges and on snow shoes mr beach tells the truth about alaska and his story is well worth reading it is not a boost for any is it an article exploiting man or set of men nor ing the country but it is merely a truthful picture of the situation which every fair minded person should read to gain a truthful idea of conditi conditions ons in the much maligned and abused jerri territory tory |
