Show J Timely Topics 1 i I S HOPE HOP FOR ALASKA'S ALASKA The vote of the national house on the Alaska railroad appropriation was Interesting to 10 the West Vest as showing the enlightened expressed in in deb j te e a as c compared with the muddle or o of misinformation that friends of the territory have in the past had to contend with in WashIngton Wash Wash- ington It is js not th that t there was no opposition t to th the appropriation for n of the road There was opposition tion In plenty but even thos thos' who objected to voting the needed funds found excuses other than that th the line would be patronized exclusively by oy Eskimo fur traders and gumdrop vendors Sit It has been a long hard campaign to educate the East and especially official Washington to th the fact that Alaska Is not a land of barren wastes wastes' and a country unfit for human habitation But in the house debate there was a notable absence of this sort of ot propaganda As a matter of olf fact official Washington is going to to wake waIte up some day to the tremendous possibilities possibilities' of ot Alaska But until this happy day comes conies wo we will have to extract wh whatever ever satisfaction we can but out of ot the evidence e presented by the house huse debate that hat at least wo wo have progressed in our educational campaign beyond the th point where ordinarily s sensible men persist In inde de de- de daring claring that thaC the only business the road will get Is Inthe in t the he transportation of ice Seattle Seattle Times |