The Alaska daily empire., 1922-07-08
BONE IS ASKED TO BE DELEGATE
 TO CONFERENCE
Invited to Attend Pan Pacific Commercial Conference
 at Honolulu.

All ISeHt lIFItdtiOH Has Deeu eA- tended to Gov. Scott c. Bone to be present at the Pan Pacific Conner cial Conference to be held in Homo lulu October 25 to November 6. The invitation was contained in a letter just received by Governor Bone from the Pan Pacific Union, os which or ganization he is one of the honorary vice presidents.
 Governor Bone, while acknowledg- ing the appeal held out by such a trip, said that it would probably be impossible for him to accept the in vitation. The Department of In- terior will be represented by some one from the Washington offices Tie Pan Pacific Union has trans mitted through the State Department an invitation to the governments of the Pacific lands to appoint dele gates to the conference
 Although this conference is not under the auspices of the govern ment and the Pan Pacific Union not an official body. the Union frequent ly gathers together the key men of the Pacific in various lines of thought and action, for better acquaintance and friendly co-opera- tion. The heads of practically all the Pacific lands have accepted Hon Presidency of the Pan Pacific Union and many of the Pacific governments have made appropriations toward it's support in bringing together for dis cussion and action the leading scientists, educators, pressmen, fi- nanciers and commercial men of Pa cific lands
 The late Franklin K. Lane, while Secretary of the Interior, accepted the chairmanship of this conference of the key men of the Pacific in matters of commerce and finance, such conference at the oceans cross roads having been suggested by Thomas F. Lamont, of Morgan X Co.,, and by Viscount Shibuzawa, the merchant king of Japan.
 The director of the Pan Pacific Union. Alexander Hume Ford, has been carrying on the work in Wash ington recently and announces that several Pacific countries have al ready appointed delegates to the con ference, while Gov. Wallace R. Far rington of Hawaii, president of the Union, has given assurance of hearty welcome and entertainment for the delegates.
 The agenda of the Pan Pacific Commercial Conference was drawn up in Washington during the great conference last winter by some of the delegates from Pacific lands, by representatives of the Department of Commerce and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce.
 The delegates from the two Amer ica's will sail from. San Francisco on October IS, having ship to them selves. The delegates from the Phil ippincs, Java, Siam. China, Japan and Siberia will sail from Yokohama October 12.
 Mir Wallace Alexander, president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, has appointed commit tee to cooperate with the other coast chambers in securing B lead ing commercial and financial men to represent the Pacific Coast region. Prominent financicrs in New York and the East are gathering as many delegates from the rest of the coun try. as 1t is intended to limit the of delegates to 75 from the America's and as many more from the rest of the Pacific These will meet daily at conference and enter tainment in Hawaii until tho entire group is assimilated. . Prince I. Tokugawa. head of the Pan Pacific Union work in Japan, and Viscount Shibuzawa, have given of a strong delegation from Dai Nippon. Canada and Aus traEia have already appointed off cial delegates, and it is expected that China will be we'll represented.
 Out of this conference it is ex- pected will develop a permanent or yanization of the key men of the