The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-07-09
EMISSARIES OF
 GOOD WILL ARE
 INVITED NORTH
Chamber Wires Invitation to Kansas City Flyers
 to Come Here

A Good VIII plane flying from Kansas City to every State capital in the United States will be 'in- vited to pay visit to Alaska's cap- ital The Chamber of Commerce today authorized Secretary G. H. Walmsley to wire Col. Conrad Mann, President of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce extending the invitation to Dr.. J. B. Brock and Col. Ruby D. Garrett, the flyers.
 The Chamber also authorized the Secretary to send message to Senator Peter Norbeck to be a guest of the Chamber next week. He is due to arrive here next Thurs day evening and the Chamber will postpone it's regular meeting until Friday noon in order to entertain him.
 Gridiron Is Completed
 The 136-foot public gridiron, con- structed by the City, was recently completed and is now in service, the Chamber was told today by Mayor T. B. Judson. Boats are already using the grid, he said.
 He reviewed briefly some of the improvements made this year by the municipality. The sewer in stallation is now about completed. In the entire town there are only one or two blocks of wooden sewer remaining, the remaining portions being served by, concrete pipe in- stallation
 The City will not undertake any street paving this summer, Mayor Judson said. However, it will do considerable work putting in con- crete sidewalks in both residential and downtown districts.
 Local Ways Improued
 Another local betterment of more than casual importance was re- ported by the Executive Committee through Secretary Walmsley. The marine ways owned by Woodman and Berntsen. he said, have been materially improved and equipped. This plant is now capable of handling any kind of boat repair and other marine work on vessels up to 50 feet long.
 The financial statement of the American Legion covering the Fourth of July celebration was mace today. It showed total expenditure of $1,04149 and re- ceipts of $1,O70, leaving a balance of $28.5l which was remitted to the ChamEer.
 The report was adopted and a letter thanking both the Legion naires end Fire Departme nt for their services was ordered forward ed. A suggestion that the balance be placed in a special fund for next years celebration was referred to the Executive Board.
 Alaska's "Human Touch
 Alaska still has the Human touch," declared J. B. Nicely, New Yorker, who was guest of the Chamber of Commerce. He has been spending some time at Funter at the Alaska Admiralty property and will leave tomorrow Ior the East.
 Business conditions generally are not good in the States. "The East has been hollering for a year or two. and the Pacific Coast is just beginning to holler. Conditions are better in Alaska than any, where in the country Mir Nicely said.
 But after all, the two and one half or three million unemployed have been allowed to weigh too and not enough considera- ton has been given to the 40,0O0,- poo odd employed of the country.
 Takes Care of ODn
 Alaska apparently takes care of it's own. In the crowded cities and industrial centers when men lose their jobs business men shut down credit and breadlines have to be created to take care of their food wants.
 Alaska, MT. Nicely commented, take care of it's own. When men are temporarily idle, business men extend credit on the theory that they will be reimbursed when work is again available. T have become with the LOU system in vogue in Alaska and regard it as beneficial to the laboring men. You have a volume of business large enough to go around, and enough money to finance you in times of stress he said.
 You have the human touch There is a different atmosphere here. You are not only making