The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-05-16
BOOMING THE TOWN
A Live and Enthusiastic Organ
izatiOn Helps.
Eight Hundred Business Men Form q
Commercial Club to Better
the Town.
HAVE BEEN SUCCESSFUL

grow rapidly should organize a clut
like Kansas City mas. The CONNER
cial club is the Incorporated title of it.
1t is not among the new hustling ele'
ments Of Kansas City. It has lived
long enough to have inspired and start
ed, strengthened, developed and
rounded out good things multitude
nous for the town. From the very
start 1t accomplished things, and age
infiicts neither languor nor lsmeness.
Fifteen years ago il started upon its
campaign of Kansas City upbuilding.
It had public approval from its begin
ming; now il commands pubic enthu-
siasm. More than 500 Kansas City
business men are ON its rolls, and not
one laggard is in the list
It is not on the semi-occssioual plan
spasmodically. that the Kansas City
Commercial club acts, says the New
York Times. Every week has its
NEE ting, every meeting its mission,
every meeting and every mission
KEYED to the local slogan, MAKE Kan
sss City a good town to live inf"
In regard to the work Of the club
Its secretary recently said:
I'VE have accomplished goC,d deal
We expect to accomplish vastly mote
We are just getting our gait. We have
only one purpose, we Just stand for
Kansas City. Any important question
affecting Kansas City's welfare com
mands our attention, and the progress
sive side can depend upon our earnest
championship We work for Kansas
City precisely as the winning business
man works in his own personal inter
est. We are not Handicapped by any
tinge of factionalism. Getting togeth-
err, discussing the good of our city On
broad lines, it is never difficult for rs
to agree as a unit mon what is munic-
ipally advisable, and then We act.
There isn't half-hearted man In
all our 500. Our business men are
Joined in this campaign for Kansas
City's benefit on basis wholly supe'
rior to any that can be inspired by the
pettiness Of selfishness. They are ready
continually to give of their time, their
counsel and their money. OF course
results follow. Perhaps II we were
less united, If elements Of personal sell
fishness were operating, 1t might be
different, but this is'guessvork, mere
ly. for what we know about and all
we know about is just one strong pull
altogether for Kansas City"
II is not merely in the bringing OF
new manufactures to employ labor,
utilize raw material and distribute
pay rolls; IT is not merely in the de-
velopment of plans for expanding mer-
camille connections that this orgniza-
ton is industrious. Along those lines
il does work wonders, but its field is
broader. Not less conspicuous in its
calendar is the campaign waged con-
stantIy for municipal cleanliness.
Through 1t have started plans for q
public park system great in acreage
and greater still in its developing
Identification, close to 100000
have already been invested in 1t, with
a., 0O0, 900 more speedily to be availa-
, ble-fsir record this for western riv-
err town whose assets and whose credit
were texts for POPULARITY decade and
J less ago.
What such work accomplishes IL
sionified in the limitations. Kansas
City tinds itself in this one particular
a pioneer whose example influences
business sentiment throughout the en-
tire southwest. Even stronger and
richer, st. LOUIS wheels finally into
! line and in measurable ways accepts
this phase of Kansas City leadership,
while every town and hamlet of con
sequence in the southwest has hasten
ed, and that enthusiastically, to es
tablish home championship organiza
tions OF this same type.
In twenty alert towns OF western
and northern Missouri, Of Kansas anc
Oklahoma and Texas and even in thu
quondam quietude Of Arkansas thi
Commercial club idea is not merley q
; cepted, but has come TO be controlling
Thus Kansas City is actually stencile'
: the whole southwest over.
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