Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-11-12

How the Commercial Club, COmpos-
ed of Eight Hundred business Men,
IL working For Town Betterment.
Aims of the Association.
Towns that wish to progress and
grow rapidly should organize n club
like Kansas City has The Commercial
club is the Incorporated title Of II. II
is not among the new hustling ele-
ments OF Kansas City. II has lived
long enough to have inspired and start
ed, strengthened, developed and round
cd out good things multltudlnous for
the town. From the very start II ac-
complIshed things, and age inhicts nei-
ther languor nor lameness Fifteen
years ago II started upon Its campaign
OF Kansas City upbullding, II had
public approval from Its beginning;
now II commands public enthusiasm.
More than 800 Kansas City business
men are on its rolls, and not one lag
gard Is In the list.
II IL not on the scmioccasional plan,
spasmodlcally, that the Kansas City
Commercial club acts, says the New
York Times. Every week has Its meet
ing, every meeting its mission, every
meeting and every mission keyed TO
the local slogan. "Make Kansas City
good town TO live inp
In regard 10 the work OF the club Its
secretary recently said:
ave have accomplished good deal
We expect TO accomplish vastly more.
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
I've 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
tlnge OF factionalism. Getting togeth-
or, discussing the good OF our city on
broad lines, II is never difficult for us
TO agree ms n unit upon what Is munic-
ipally advisable, and then we act.
"There isn't half hearted man In all
our 800. Our business men are Joined
In this campaign for Kansas Clty's ben
eft on basis wholly superior 10 any
that can be inspired by the pettlness OF
selnshness. They are ready continually
10 give OF their time, their counsel and
their money. or course results follow.
Perhaps II we were less united, II ele-
ments OF personal selfishness were op-
Grating, II might be different, but this
Is guesswork merely. for what we
know about and all we know about is
Just one strong pull altogether for Kan
sas city"
II is not merely In the bringing OF
new manufactures 90 employ labor,
utilize raw material and distribute pay
rolls; II Is not merely IN the develop
ment OF plans for expanding mercantile
connections that this organization Is
Industrious. Along those lines II does
work wonders, but Its field Is broader.
Not less conspicuous IN its calendar
is the campaign waged constantly for
municipal cleanliness, Through Il have
started plans for Il public park system
great in acreage and greater still I'm Its
developing Identification, close TO S3,-
100000 having already been invested
In It, with SS,000,G00 more speedily TO
be available - frlr record this for Il
western river town whose assets and
whose credit were texts for jocularity
decade and less ago.
What such work accomplshcs ls sig.
nlhed IN the limitations, Kansas City
finds itself In this one particular pio
ncor whose example influences business
sentiment throughout the entire south
west, 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 consequence In the
southwest has hustencd, and that On
Enthusiastically, 10 establish home cham.
plonship organizations OF this same
type.
In twenty alert towns OF western
and northern Missouri, OF Kausns and
Oklahoma and Texas and even In the
quondam Quietude OF Arkansas this
Commercial club idea is not merely nc.
ceptcd. but has come 10 be controlling.
Thus Kansas city is actually stencilcd
the whole southwest over.