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Show O 1 , i "i" -i-i - i p "On to Alaska With Buchanan? Slogan of Fifty Boys Vk. - x nil, iTi r ; -4 1 Onset) Ceo&ge . Buchanan WM BucMan-an a mo ti? Bove, Banff ' e g h hi f4' ?i A .v I : George E Buchanan, sponsor ana Dackei ol anci rooter for the movement move-ment ol boys to Alaska. Is planning to tal:e fifty or more to the great United States possession In July Buchanan, who is prominent m the Detroit Coal Exchange, president of five coal companies and a bachelor, believes that a trip to Alaska provided pro-vided a boy partly earns his way. will De a wonderful Normative Incident In his life. He has already taken 400 boys to Alaska and this will be his ninth annual personally conducted tour. The boys, ages S to 17, must earn .one-third of the cost of the trip (18125.00); the parents advance a third and BuchanaD oans the boy one-third, one-third, which is to be repaid later at BUCHANAN'S VANCOUVER Uic- oo, s leisure, so that other boys may go to Alaska later. Buchanan who gets letters from all over the United States and Canada addressed "Alaska, Buchanan. Detroit.'' and "Buchanan. Boy's F-lend, Detroit.' tells the boy who writes to him direct from anywhere how he can earn his third by selling pencils, kitchen tongs, coal, steel ash baskets, etc. Boys who qualify go westward through Canada and the Canadian Rockies, seeing Banff .and Lake Louise, then North to Alaska on the "Princess Louise." They see the wonders of Alaska and return by the "Princess Alice" to Vancouver and homeward through the united States, thus viewing the finest scenery In Canada, Alaska and the States Buchanan gees with tlicr.: on evcrj trip and gives them his personal care When asked whe;t he did If tiles sick, he declared that they did nci get sick, or If they had a bli of indisposition in-disposition the wonderful climate pepped them up and put them baci: on their feet Immediately "One oo'. gained 19 pounds during the month's tour." said Buchanan, "and every boj has gone home a better boy physically mentally and as a young business man. He has seen Alaska's wonders and has earned part of the money to finance the trip, which covers iboui 8,000 miles and lasts a whole month. Any boy, anywhere, can go. provided he gets his parents' consent and earn." hts third." |