The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-01-19
PRESIDENT w. w. COUNCIL OF JUNEAU CHAMBER OF COM
 MERGE ADVISES CITIZENS

MERGE ADVISES CITIZENS As we round the corner into the new year, there comes an almost involuntary impulse to all of us to take a personal as well as business inventory.
 Two questions we may put to ourselves with wisdom-What have I contributed to my community and the Territory to help build them into a better place to live? What definite plans have I to improve myself and my environment dur ing 1881?
 It is too much t1 cxpecv a mere handful of citizens to accept the entire responsibility of good gov ernment and likewise inadyisable.
 Each one of us who thinks and cares about our city should con- tribute his or her bit towards it's improvement. Loyalty to our local institutions, our industries, our mer- chants, our products, and above all our privilege of citizenship is the first and most important contri- button we can make. Criticism should always be measured by it's constructive value looking toward improvement of those things in which we as group of people may be weak or lacking
 The stranger entering a home judges the character of the family by the kind of loyalty displayed by it's members, and then by the signs of harmony, rich or humble though they may be. In the same manner is city judged by the visitor, and more important than that by the same analysis we be- come more or less attached to our city and Territory.
 Let us during the next year set ourselves to the laudable task of lending friendly personal, and business hand to our own people; keeping our business dollars rolling as close to our own district as possible, employing the maximum of Alaskan people in stores, shops and on our public works.
 We should individually and col- lectively join in concerted move ment to discourage the loose talk CT who strikes a vicious blow at his home and Territory by indulg- ing in careless remarks about any of our activities. There should be no place in Juneau or Alaska for the individual who islanders his community which has so bounti- fully contributed to all those who have come here to make their homes.
 There is more opportunity here for men of vision with only small amounts of capital who have the urge to work faithfully and employ their talents, than anywhere in America.
 Loyalty then is an obligation
 
 we owe to our home city and its organizations. No man has right to it's citizenship who will not de- fend it's good name.
 It is source of genuine grati- fication to the Board of Directors and veteran members of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce to realize how splendidly the Cham Der has held it's membership during the past year. Several members explained that while they are cut ting down in many instances, they feel that the Chamber of Com merce is of greater use now than ever and this is the time, above all, when it must be supported and it's work permitted to continue un- hampered.
 One member explained that "lf I lost my membership in the Chamber, my club, or my church I would feel that was losing my place and giving up all hope oi the future" The list of delinquent members is small and if you hap pen to be one of them, this is g fine time to start the New Year right-with check.
 w. w. COUNCIL, President. By G. H. WALMSLEY, Secretary