Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1906-11-15
Necessity Of a Board Of TIads.

A'"eJ ivy oAS "hoe thS pSuplS
living here have made them and
the business men present are in
a large measure responsible for
these conditions.
Whatever progress has been
made in recent years is due in
large measure to the individual
efforts of those present, and the
main reason perhaps that no
greater results have been achiev-
ed has been in the lack of organi-
cation.
Our section is blessed with
natural resources far beyond
many localities that enjoy the
blessings of enlightened civiliza-
tion in greater measure than
the people of Tracy City and
Grundy County. Localities with
less resources have better trade
and more of it than we; are fur
ther from markets and enjoy a
lower freight rate than Tracy
City; are more compactly built
and yet pay less for fire insur-
ance; enjoy better roads at
lower tax rate than we; take in
more money and send away less
of it than our section.
System is the first requirement
to success in everything. More
men have failed for want of sys-
tenn than for any other cause.
The same is true of communities.
Success in every case requires
systematic, relentless, persistent
push, whether it applies to an
individual, town, county, a
state or the national govern
ment.
Our town has at different
times been blessed with citizens
who were deeply interested in
her welfare and done what they
could in an idvidual capacity to
promote the common interest
/ along certain lines. An organi-
| zasiuarioolsina .Sartha intes@sta
Of the community in a general
way, thereby improving every
| individuals interest, has never
existed. Many towns have
municipal corporations, local
selfgovernment, for the protec-
tion and promotion of common
interests Of their community,
endowed with power to levy
taxes. Not satisfied with the
slow progress of municipal gov
ernment for their advancement,
some of these communities have
organized Boards of Trade,
| Chambers of Commerce, etc. for
the specific purpose of furthering
their commercial interests.
While such towns around us
are enjoying an ever increasing
prosperity, and growing syste
matically from great to greater,
Tracy City, with far greater
natural advantages and entitled
to more of the good things, is and
has been merely drifting. Wher
we drift away from the road t'
progress, we are occasionally
righted by some progressive citi'
zen, but as q rule we are allowed
to stray until Providence rights
us by again setting us back t.
the starting point. We run int
the mire up to our necks, W.
butt our heads against all kind
of imaginable and impossible OBJ
structions, we regain our equili
brinm and turn out of the roat
to pitch down an embankment
where we lay as in a recent in
stance for two years until provl
| dence again comes to our rescue
There is not a town in tn
state that needs an active organi
zation for the protection anC
furtherance Of it's interests
, more than Tracy City, and amoni
: all the towns there is not on
that will receive greater benefi
both collectively and individual
S ly from such an organization
than we. 1t will accomplish
S what no amount of individual eff
fort can ever reach and will il
e turn stimulate to individual ef
fort can ever reach and will i
i turn stimulate the individua
t. TO put forth renewed efforts.
l.; Such an organization must b
" composed of earnest, eificien
man hroadmindad enouoh (