Perth Amboy evening news., 1909-03-10
Tells Of the Constructive and De-
struCtive Features-- Kind of City
and Work to be Done.
LIVELY DISCUSSION TOOK PLACE
Bankrupt Sales Stopped--C COMMITTEE
Appointed to Take Up Program
Advertising & Trading Stamps.

A profitable meeting was held by
the Board of Trade in the auditori-
um of the public library last night.
There was an interesting address by
Rev. James H. Northrup, after which
several merchants took part in a
discussion on such topics of program
advertising, and trading stamps All
who spoke opposed both of these
ment of a committee to canvass the
merchants to see II a united effort
could not be made to end the evils.
Bankrupt Sales.
Herman Philo reported that he
had investigated the matter of
bankrupt sales and had learned from
Plainfield, where they have been
successfully opposed, that a state
law governed them. This fact Mr..
Philo took to Chief Burke, of this
city, who acted promptly with the
result that several of such fake
sales have been closed.
AS no word had been received
from the Pennsylvania railroad re-
garding the condition of the freight
yard that matter was deferred.
Following the open meeting the
following new members were elect
ed: Herman Ellis, William J. Lans-
ley, Hans Nelson, George H. Tice,
South r. harrington and NJ. Wurt-
eel.
Mr.. Northrup's address was to
the point on the welfare of Perth
Amboy. He spoke as follows:
Mr.. Northrup's Address.
1t is happy evidence of the pro-
gress and broadmindedness of our
time that ministers should in prac-
tical affairs look to business meth
DDS, and to businss men for counsel,
concerning the management of re-
ligious institutions; and that you
business men should show us minis
ters the courtesy of listening to
what suggestions we may be able to
give concerning the commercial ad-
vancement of our city.
This reciprocity of advice shows
that we realize that complete city
as well as complete individual Is
a circle of $50 degrees. The man
who neglects his business, or his
politics, or his pleasures, or his re-
ligion is incomplete. He may be a
good business man and still be only
a quadrant: he may add politics and
still be but half a man, hemi-
sphere; he may add pleasure and let
three-quartrs of his possibilities
shine like the convex moon, the
rest dark; and he may with all
these and through all these have
religion, and be complete man, re-
fiecting to the world light like the
full-orbed queen of the night.
So a town may have the raw ma
terial of greatness-harbors, rail-
roads, houses, streets, factories and
laborers, and merchants, and yet be
but an infant, undeveloped. Add to
1t governmen Incorporation, may
or, aldermen, courts, police, i'm
provement of streets, fire depart
ment, and yet 1t is only half city.
You may add schools and halls and
theatres, hospitals and homes for
the aged, the work Is not done yet.
Add churches for worship and, more
than that, the practical essence of
all religion, that expressed by the
Jewish prophet, to do justly, to
love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God," micah 6:8); and
that mercy and love to your neigh
Dor as yourself. taught by the Foun-
der Of Christianity, Jesus of Naza-
reth, in the parable of the good Sa-
maritan. Then the city would be
complete, circle. This is long
process, prograss comes, as, 1t were,
by degrees.
The sym pathetic, mutual counsel
and co-working of the commercial,
political and moral factors of this
community make the true way of
progress toward a complete city,
model town, where the Inhabitants
are prosperous, law-abiding, happy
and good.
And 1 wish to commend the Board
of Trade and exhort it to tncreas-
ing and broadening activity because
its endeavor is on nobler plane
than that of individual enterprise,
which is carried on under the law
that competition is the life OF
trade" and which Is mostly hustle
to get ahead, and not infrequently
falls to the level of the now trite
David Harum maxim, do unto the
other fellow as ne would do to you,
and do 1t first" or even, in shorter
phrase, do others or they'll do
you" The method Of such an or
ganization as this is benefltting the
members by benehtting the town,
primarily the prosperity and ad-
vancement of your city, incidentally
your participation in the prosperity
and advancement of Perth Amboy
Thus the patriot wins his freedom
whom he has fought and made his