Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-06-30
tTF HERE is Il need of a Boost
ers' Club in Newport News.
That is as true as the fact

bT"Y HERE is need of a Boost
ers' Club in Newport News.
q That is as true as the fact
that the sun is going down
behind the James river this evening.
The city needs such an organization
because wagning, malicious tongues
have made it a necessity.
The knocker is abroad, the anvil
chorus is ringing loud and strong; the
hammers are beating necessarily and
the axes of many never tire of taking
chips out of the good name Of the city
and of the jamestown Exposition. The
chronic knocker as Il rule does not
carry much weight in the community
where he is known but it is to the
stranger who does not know him
where he gets in his finest and best
work.
There is only one way to meet the
knocker and that is to use the same
weapon that he does-the tongue
but in different manner. Instead
of saying something evil all the time
make every utterance one Of hopeful
ness good cheer, kindness and ever
lastingly keep at boosting that which
the knockers are knocking.
The Daily Press believca i'm all sim
certify that there is room In our city
for the lustiest and healthicst kind
of Boosters Club, and it asks its
friends, patrons and citizens general
Iy. to aid in movement that can have
only rcsut-and that is the better
rnent of the city and the jamestown
Exposition.
We want the Boosters club organ
lied because 1t is needed and it is
needed badly. There is no money
making scheme connected with the or
ganization of the club. There will be
no dues; 1t will not he necessary to
subscribe or the Daily Press or any
thing of that sort to become d mem
Der. There is only one restriction to
membership and that is the subscrib
ing to the pledge which will be found
on this page of the Daily Press.
The enrolment of the membership
of the club will be confined to the
month of July. The coupon and the
pledge found on this page will be ex-
tensivey circulated and 1t is surely
to be hoped that the enrolment will
be large. There is no limit to the mem
bership. Every man and woman and
child In Tidewater Virginia can sub
scribe and all that the Daily Press
asks is that the pledge taken is lived
up to.
At the end of July The Daily Press
VIII issue neat souvenir book Civ
ing all the names Of the members of
the Boosters Club, which by the way
will not have any officers or meet
L.. a.
vcnir which the Daily Press proposes
TO issue will stand for Just one thing
boosting lthc jamestown Exposition
and the city of Newport News.
Let us tell you why Boosters club
in needed in Newport News. Perhaps
every person who reads this will re-
member some little or big knock he
or she has heard on the Exposition or
the city of Newport News, but perhaps
you have not paid much attention to
1t because i'm your estimation the re-
marks carried no weight and would
have no bearing in the outside world.
That Is true in many cases, but per-
haps it will be source of surprise
to many of you to know that there are
men in Newport News today-promi
nent men--men in business and In
professional walks of life whose bread
and butter are dependent upon the
prosperity of the city who never miss
single opportunity to cast asper-
aions and slurs upon the Exposition
and the city. Perhaps that is start
ling statement but 1t is nevertheless
true. 1t is positive and actual fact
that the other day when the report
that the Exposition buildings were
being burned-a report that started
from the fact that big slice of Pine
Beach was being wiped out by fire
there we're men in Newport News who
were positively gceful over the
thought that the jamestown buildings
were being consumed by flames.