Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-18
COMPARE NOTES
ON PROMOTION
CALIFORNIA; UPBUILDERS
CONVENE AT NAPA
Pssadena's Representative Says Or
ganized Effort to Foster Local
Development Should Be
Free of "Knoeks"

Delegates to the convention Of the
counties committee of the California
Promotion committee at Napa spent
Sunday on an excursion up the valley
Jas guests of the chamber of commerce
of Calstoga and the board of trade of
st. Helena.
More than one hundred delegates.
representing organizations i'm all parts
of California, are present at the conven-
ton and the addresses all show in
creased interest I'm the movement to
place the state well before the world.
The Napa chamber of commerce ar
ranged a program of entertainment,
the New Century club, the Napa cham
Der of commerce. Napa soda springs
and others assisting.
Governor George c. Pardee, Lieuten-
ant Governor Alden Anderson, A. A.
Trogidge, president Of the California
Miners association, and other men Of
affairs we're present.
On Business Lines
Rufus p. Jennings, chairman of the
California promotion committee, in his
address expressed the appreciation of
the committee ON the manner in which
the delegates to the meeting had been
received and entertained by the people
OF the Napa valley He also brought
out the importance Of the semi-annual
meetings and the good they accomplish
by being held in different parts of
California.
Mr., Jennings said in part:
ITO my mind the local organization
properly systematized on business
lines is a necessity to the prosperity of
nit fes .nnlx
any community that cannot well sup
port a local organization to work ef-
fectively on the people after they ar
rive in the state that it would appear
desirable to direct efforts that way.
The California promotion committee by
its extensive and compreh ensive sys-
TEN, made possible by the financial
backing of the business men of San
Francisco, will continue to work on the
same broad and unbiased lines as it
always has. 1t will continue to direct
newcomers and prospective newcom-
ers to different localities in California,
but it wishes to leave the final locating
of people who come here to the local
organiZa tiOn.
Benefit of Capitalization
"This development work is a busi-
ness. You may compare it with any
business enterprise and when you do
you will realize that it can only be
successful by continuing to
operate on business principles and by
Capitalization.
"The success we have had during the
past few years in exploiting Califor-
MAS advantages has been recognized
throughout the world, and 1 attribute
this success mainly to the fact that
we have all been cooperating on busi-
ness lines"
One of the interesting addresses was
by d. w. Coolidge, secretary of the
board of trade of Pasadena, who said
in part:
Pasadenan's Trite Remarks
"As to the work a board of trade,
or chamber of commerce, or similar
tion should do. it strikes me
that our work for the past year is
good exemplification.
"While an organization of this kind
should be alert to its local needs, and
do everything possible to foster local
development, it should not strive to
build up it's own locality at the expense
of any otheK part of the state or coun-
try.
ut is right and proper that the citi-
zens of any community should thor
oughly believe that they have the
Garden of Eden italy of America
The ideal residence section, the best
part of Gods footstool,' and all that,
and should everlastingly talk and write
it. but it is not right or proper to throw
cold water on or knock other sections.
81 wish here to speak in appreciation
of the work of the California promo
ton committee. Many parties have
had their attention called to our part of
the state by this vigorous organiza-
ton, and | am sure that as long as
Messrs. Sbarboro and Jennings are as
the head we owe 1t to our interests TO
cooperate with them"