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not buying enough homemade goods.
"Why 10 elsewhere when you can
buy ct home?" contended the manu-
facturers.
I'VE will help you" replied the asso-
citation, by the establishment Of q
market week, which will be q carnival
Of Chicago-made goods" The third
week in August, which Is ordinarily
the dullest of the season, was select
ed for the time. The retail mer
chants. at the request Of the associa-
ton. rendered the use Of their win
dows for an exposition Of Chicago
goods. Reduced rates we're obtained
on the railroads. The result was that
what had been the dullest week OF
the season became the most active
save for the holiday sason; the 10
cal stores got the home-patronage-
ofhome- products habit and benefit
was brought TO the whole business
community. The market week will
be an annual feature hereafter.
All this trade building and general
business getting would 90 for naught
f there was no adequate trafiic facili-
ties. Though Chicago had remark
able strategic position az to railroads
there were some defects. The most
serious was the lack of through
freight package service to small
towns, especially in the South. On
account of long delays in shipments
Chicago houses lost some Of their
Southern trade. Something had to
he done and the As1ociation Of Com
merce did II through its traffic bureau.
Saved Time In Freight Delivery.
Here was the old system: A mer-
chan. let US say. in Wilson. North
Carc!,6a. bought q small bill from
n Chicago drummer. When asked how
ne wanted IL shipped he said. AT
lan.ic Coast Line" because II ran In
TO the town. But the Atlantic Coast
Line was not the initial 1ine-that
is, the line on which the package
started on its journey. The shipper
IN Chicago. therefore, would ship 1t
by the road nearest to his warehouse
or factory. What happened? Sup.
pose Il started on the Monon route,
over which 1t would go to Louisville
Then IL would he transferred TO the
Southern Railway and prOcead to
Salisbury, North Carolina. Here there
would be change to Richmond, Vir-
GINA. where 1t would get into an At
lsnt'c Coast Line car and be hauled
tn Wilson. There were five transfers
and Il took nine days from Chicago
often longer. So frequent were the
delays that u became the custom
to start tracer the moment the
goods got under way. The loss OF
tine was costly to the consignee. Be
sides. there was the liability to loss
from the theft ard damage from much
handbag In the manv changes In the
freig';t yards. Everybody cursed the
railroads and complaints rained In
frcn, FL! sides.
u happn-~h thss there was man
ir :ha trr$ic tq,esc OF the Associa
t'na e. tT,;r.1.a:;s who had male a
s'te;a'.2 II 6.s7ecting tonnage and
VII worried out plan for the estab
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hohment Of direct car service on all
lines out Of Chicago that would solve
the package problem. The key was
in starting the stun by the initial
line that would nc: only carry 1t the
farthest but make tho quickest and
closest connections and with the few
est transfers. 1t meant the putting
on Of direct cara to certain central
points. He laid the plan before the
bureau; 1t was approved, and with
the assistance of the railroads he
established . through package service
that has wrought wonders for the
Chicago shipper A book called The
Way to Ship has been prepared which
tells the Chicago shipper exactly how
| to route a package to any remote
point and get 1t there in half or even
| one-third the time that it took be-
fore.
Let us take the case Of the Wilson,
North Carolina, merchant that I used
as an example. Suppose a package
is to go to him now The merchant
goes TO his Way to Ship book, looks
up Wilson, North Carolina. and finds
this explanation: ship Baltimore &
Ohio, care Atlantic Coast Line. Car
due fourth day. This means that
instead OF sending 1T by the round
about way that I have described. the
package starts on the Baltimore &
Ohio, goes direct to Richmond and.
with only one transfer, Is put aboard
an Atlantic Coast Limo car. and gets
to Wilson the fourth morning after
II IS shipped, or In less than half the
time.
Bait For Conventions.
The Introduction of this service
for one thing, has caused a decrease
Of eighty per cent in the number OF
tracers sent out after package ship
ments. 1t enables the railroads to
have more cars at their service and
thus do more business; It puts the
shipper I'm closer touch with his Gus
toner and he can handle consign-
fments on short order and with profit
especially with goods rushed to meet
sudden changes In temperature. Like
wise 1t reduces the risk of loss from
pilferage and damage in transfer 1t
is one more general benefit that the
association has brought about
| Very soon the association realized
that, to advertise and enrich Chica-
go, an organized effort must be made
to get conventions. A convention bl-
reau was established which has re-
duced the business to real science
II wastes neither money nor energy
For long time It was the practice
of cities to distribute badges and
lapel buttons why not give some
thing practical?" said Chicago-and
her bureau gives away lead pencils
D the inscriptions: Mark 1t down
al then come to Chicago"
How IL the bureau to know where
and what the conventions are? In
IT, answer to this question is a reve.
latior OF the remarkable extent to
which this kind OF organization has
goae. You can go to the convention
bureau Of the Chicago Association of
Commerce and find a complete file
Of the name. strength. organization
method Of selecting meeting place
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of members. The beginning was in
teresting. One day some of the off,
GERS were talking about the future Of
the association and one of them said:
Who will take it up? We have grown
into our tasks, but we will not be
here always. Let us train our sons
while they are young in the big les
son of organization and for civic and
Industrial leadership"
How can We do it," asked some
one.
"By showing them how our indus
tries are organized and operated and
how this association Is carried on"
came the answer. Thus began the ex-
cursions.
There are half a dozen trips each
year. The boys are taken in a body
to institutions like the United States
Steel Corporation plant at Gary; to
the Pullman works; to Packingtcn
and to the Edison electric plant. The
trip to Gary was typical. More than
six hundred sons went on the big
steamer United States. On the way
to the steel city there was an open
air meeting on the upper deck, where
there were addresses in simple langu-
age by prominent members OF the as
ISOLATION on such helpful subjects as
| thrift" and reorganization" Mr..
Homer A Stillwell, president of the
association, who happened to be in
New Haven. sent a telegram which
contained the following paragraph
that SENS tc convey fittingly the
spirit and usefulness Of these excur-
sions: Study the lesson Of this day
and this visit, thus preparing your
self to accept the larger responsible
ties time is sure to bring to you From
among your number will be selected
the future officers Of the Association
Of Commerce-even its presidents.' y
/ Thus, wherever you turn in the
swift drama Of great city's actiyi-
ties you find the impress of this as.
sociation. It may be in the shape OF
check on the pollution OF the water
supply, or an organized effort to re.
store the lost lake-shippfng prestige
through river-and -harbor agitation. or
censorship on solicitations for
charity.
I Now turn to a smaller but none
the less effective. agency for city ad
vance and business betterment as
represented by the Cleveland Cham
Der of Commerce. No similar BODY
is more highly organized or more po
tent in influence. A few examples
will illustrate its method and result
Take, for example. its work in safe
: guarding the city railway franchises
Here is kind OF conservation tina,
rot only protects public service bu1
b-lwarks the investment of the peo
pies money. A very difficult tractor
situation had developed. The fran
chfse Of the surface lines were expir
ing: the company sought renewal, bu
the city demanded terms which tn.
corporation believed were unrea son
able. An experiment In partial mu
nicipal ownership, together with al
agitation for three-cent fare. compli
cated the problem: and after a dis
astrous strike, the com any went Int
the hands OF a receiver. Meanwhile.
the equipment and service depreciat
ed and the public clamored for relief
A settlement plan was worked gu
BY Judge Robert W. Tayler, Of thu
Federal court, which provided, anon
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and, what is moro important than
anything else, the spending capacity
of every kind Of organization that
meets in the United States. It may
surprise you to know that there are
exactly four thousand such organiza-
tions. Some only meet every four
years. Numbers do not always count.
For example, the bureau estimates
that though the average religious
convention averages daily expendi
ture of a dollar and seventy-five cents
person, the usual daily spending
capacity for a visitor during Shrln-
ers' meeting is twelve dollars and
seventy-five cents. On the spending
capacity depends the degree OF work
expended to get the meeting. You get
some idea of the value of some con-
ventions when you discover that the
| Knights Templar alone left nine mill
lion dollars this year.
| Formerly city was satisfied when
1t got one convention of certain Kind
at time, but the Chicago bureau has
a plan that rounds up all the affiliated
| interests. For instance, it secured
| the national dairy show this year.
Having obtained this. it set out to get
| the annual conventions OF the butter
makers, the cattle breeders-in fact,
all lines associated with dairying. The
result was that 1t made the dairy
show bigger and better and at the
sameA time brought ten times more
people TO the city than would have
come II there had been nothing more
than a mere dairy-show. The net re-
suit of the work OF this bureau is
that already there have been three
hundred and fifty conventions in Chi
cago this year. which brought in near
ly half a million strangers who spent
nearly twelve million dollars.
Somewhat different is the work
Of the association in having the sa-
loon license raised from five hundred
to ono thousand dollars Within a
year this reduced the number of sa
looms from eighty hundred and nine
ty-seven to seventy-one hundred and
fifty-two. The increased revenue
which came to the city has been de-
voted, at the suggestion of the as
sociation. to adding thousand pa
trolmen to the police force and to
the erection Of new police stations.
This leads to the very interesting
and helpful connections between the
Association of Commerce and TIE DO
lice force. When the association got
well under way there was no traffic
guard and no organized Iolice super
vision of the streets. The street traf-
fic committee of the association took
the matter in hand. sent a police cap
tain to Europe at It's expense to study
traffic rules. and secured, on his re-
turn. the Introduction of a code OF
traffic rules governing the principal
streets and the organization of a traf-
fic squad.
Teaching the Young Idea.
could cite many more constructive
tasks performed by this association
but haze saved. practically for the
last, the one that in a larger sense
seems more far-reaching than ali the
rest It is the significance Of the ex-
cursions given each year for the SONS
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other things. for a guarantee Of six
per cent On the stock to the tnves'
tor. uniform system of accounting
and franchise to run for twenty-five
years, with the privilege of renewal
fifteen years before the expiration.
The Chamber of Commerce and many
citizens believed that this plan af-
forded the solution for the whole trou-
bled situation and. together with the
majority of business men, urged the
council to adopt it Instead. the
council ignored the plan and, at the
mayors instigation, passed an ordi-
nance granting a franchise to an in
dividual for a new street-car line
from Payne Avenue to the Public
Square. This line was regarded as
the nucleus for a new competing sys-
tenn and in the opinion of the best
business men seemed a step toward
prolonging the traction strife-keep-
ing the entire community in turmoil
I'VE must defeat that franchise"
said the Chamber of Commerce; and
the way 1t went about the job Is an
Interesting and animated example Of
one kind of cooperation. In Ohio all
erendum vote. The day after the
grant was passed the chamber had
hired workers to circulate a petition
for the referendum. The men were
paid according to the number Of
names they got. In a week they had
two-thirds of the voters on their list
and the election was called Then
began a campaign that stirred the
city. The chamber organized every
precinct; it did not adopt "kid-glove
reform" methods but employed train
ed political experts. Two big tents
were hired and meetings held all over
the municipality. Day and night, by
word and by bulletin. the chamber
hammered at the voters When the
votes We're counted the ordinance had
been defeated. Subsequently, through
the work OF the chamber the Tay1er
plan was put through, and order. good
service and adequate return on the
investment have grown out of a trac-
| ton chaos.
| Keeping Tab on Charities.
Entirely different in plan is the
chambers censorship of public sol
letting schemes for benevolent and
other purposes. It grew out of the
protest of business and professional
fake solicitors. who not only took up
So the chamber said: "Nhy not Or
ganize this work-establis a sort Of
clearing house and subject every sol
letting plan to careful scrutiny" a
bureau OF Information was created
| which has a card index with a com
pact history of every kind of begging
scheme. It Is a new kind Of rogues'
gallery. To solicitors for worthy
causes a card of identification is is
sued, which is a passport. What is
the result When a solicitor goes to
a Cleveland business house the Office
boy or girl at the telephone switch
board asks: Have You card from
the Chamber of Commerce.
II the solicitor has one no objec-
ton is made to canvass of the ee
ia blishment. If the agent has no card
he is told that he mi vt go to the
Chamber of Commerce Ind get one.
When he goes there he Is subjected
to a grilliny Through Its rigid in
yestigations the chamber discovered
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that moro than sixty per cont a go
Letting schemes are organized in the
interest Of the solicitor. who uses the
name of some organization withou,
permission and who practically gets
all the money himself It Is estimated
that this bureau saves Cleveland
business men from seventy-fdvo % one
hundred thousand iollArs . year.
which IL more than twioe tho oo0e OF
operating tho system.
Larger In scope 10 tho plan to- Ghe
Federation Of Charities, through
which tho Chamber Of Commerce will
assume the collection and distribution
Of all financial donations for charity
in Cleveland. Tho principal purpose
is to increase the char1ty-giving some
up to tho present time six persens
donated forty-two per cent Of all de
money for charity IN tho oity-ani
to obtain 4 moro equitable apportion.
ment of the funds. BOr example, un
der the old system IN tnstitue1pn
| with skilled solicitors and excellent
business organization will got moro
money than one equally worthy witch
has no organized plan for getttns
money. In short, the chamber viii
fit the benevolence to tho needs Of
the institution. It will hire trained
men to do the soliciting and this Will
relieve the charity worker from being
beggar and keep him on the Job
for which ho is paid. Lf1ew1so a
busy merchant can give one lump
check, which will represent his rear's
gift to charity, and know that he viii
not be disturbed a hundred times. rs
has been tho custom, for small doDa.
tons.
In carrying on its organised hunt
for new factories the chamber De.
veloped q plan for homo expansion
OF industry that may we'll form q
precedent for other enterprisinx DOM
munities Among other thinGs, II
was realized that every year Clove.
land, which is great manufacturing
center. was buying products Of other
cities. why not manufacture these
products and keep the money At
home?" asked the chamber.
| The first step was to find out WAT
the city consumed and did not make
Having discovered an article the
chamber will go to the out-of.town
manufacturer Of this particular pro.
duct and ask him to establish .
branch factory in Cleveland. II he
refuses the chamber will say: "Then
Cleveland will build one herself"
The successful carrying out OF th"
plan will give variety to tho local
industrial life and keep the community
from being "one-line" town This
means that il stagnation should come
to the steel industry, for example,
it would not PROSTATE business be
cause there would be activity in shoes
or hardware, or in other trades
The Helping Hand For Al.
In the organization OF it's vahous
departments the chamber offers al
other helpful precedent. Instead OF
apportioning it's retail merchants Of
on a committee, it has welded them
into board which Is a miniature
chamber of commerce, with its own
omcers. treasury and plan of campaign
IL meets at luncheon every week
sometimes more often Here is a eamplf
or the kind of work it does: BefOr<
It's organization the retail merchant
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Continued on Page 9. Section Thrss.
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-12-16
WANTS no HELP SOME ONE.

For thirty years ]. F. Boyer of Fer
tile, Mo-, needed help and couldn't find
it. That's why he wants to help some
one now. Suffering SO long himself
he feels for all distress from Back
ache. Nervousness, Loss of Appetite,
Lassitude and Kidney Disorder. He
shows that Eelectric Bitters work
wonders for such troubles Five bot
ties" he writes, wholly cured me and
now l am we'll and hearty" It's also
positively guaranteed for Liver
Trouble, Dyspepsia, Blood Disorders,
Female Complaints and Malaria. Try
them, SOC at all druggists.
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A READY EXAMPLE

She picked up Tommy as the
most likely to do her credit.
Tommy's faeckled knees show
ed through his trousers, and, be-
cause the managers were pres
ent, Tommy sat with a hand on
each knee.
Tommy" said the teacher,
"will you please give me"-the
teacher was always polite when
the managers were present
twill you please give me a SEN
tence with the word toward in
itq"
Then Tommy rose, and, in a
graceful attitude, with a thumb
on each frecklo, answered:
Please, teacher, I toward
my trowsisl"-Answer.
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HOMESTEADERS GRANTED
EXTENSION OF TIME

Washington, Dec. IA "A bill
allowing homestead settlers an
extension of time for establish
ing residence on their locations
from Decembrr 1st to Msy 18th
on account of the winter hard
ships in their sections, was fa-
vorable reportsd by the house
committee on public lands today.
The bill also permitd those
who have already established
residence to remain away faom
their locations from the passage
Of the bill until May 18th
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Non Coal Land.
No. 017620.

Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at Roswell, N. NJ, Oct.
81, 1910.
Notice is hereby given that Ed K.
Warge, of Elkins, N. M, who on April
%, 1909, made H. f. No. Serial O1762O,
for NEA, Section s, Twp. 7 South,
Range 2S East. New Mexico Principal
Meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make Final Communication Proof, to
establish claim to the land above des-
cribed, before H. P. Lively, U. S. Commits
sioner, in his office at Elkies, N. M. on
the 21st day of January, 1911.
Claimant names as witnesses:
William D. Smith, Oscar B. Morrison,
George w. Bice, and William M. Kelley,
all of Elkins, N. M.
T. c. TILLOTSON,
Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Not Coal Land.

Not Coal Land.
$50
Department of the Interior, Y. S.
Land Office at Fort Sumner, New
Mexico, October 81 1910.
Notice is hereby given that Gottlib
]. Frick, of Kenna, New Mexico, who,
on August 23, 1909, made Homestead
Entry Serial No 0689O for SWA SWA
Section 26, SEA SEA Section 81.
NEH NEH Section "a, NWA NWH Sec
tiion 35, Township s., Range 80 E..
N. NJ P. Meridian, has filed notice of
intention to make Final Communication
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before w. ID. Chancey,
U. S. Commissioner, at his office in
Kenna, New Mexico, on the 2Srd day
of December, 1910.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Charles Carmichael, Harry r.
Thomas, John A. Kimmons, Thomas
P. Crume, all of Kenna, New Mexico.
ARTHUR E. CURREN,
Register.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Non coal land.
O1722S.

Department of the Interior, U.
S. Land Office at Roswell, New
Mexico, October 3, 1910.
Notice is hereby giveg that Rob-
ert Palmer, of Elkins, N. NJ, who,
on March 26, 1909, made H. E.
serial, No. O1722S, for 81 SW4
Section 28, and 81 Sci, Section
30, Township 6 S, Range 28 E, N.
M. p. Meridian, has filed notice of
intention to make Final Commuta-
tion Proof, to establish claim to the
land above described, before H. P.
Lively U. S. Commissioner in his
office, at Elkins, N. NJ, on the 2G,
day of Nov, 1910.
Claimant names as witnesses.
John F. Carroll, Charles f.
Miller, George w. Bice, William
D. Smith, all of Elkins n. M.
T. G. TiIItoson,
oct 81 nov 25 Register.
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THE WINDOW wISHERS

The little window wishers,
with their tender eyes of blue.
Standing there before the toy
shops,
don't they touch the healt of
you9
Don't you almost shiver with
them as their tattered
clothes you sec,
The ragged little urchins, with
the patches on each knee9
Can you see them longing,
yearning, sweet childhood's
wistful way,
And for get them in your plan
ming for a merry Christmas
dayG
Oh, the little window wishers,
baby hearts and baby eyes,
With their trusting faith in
Santa gazing there in glad
surprise,
At the dollies and tile soldiers
and the Teddy bears believ-
ing
That they will not be forgot
ten. Can you see them with
out grieving2
Can you think of them on
Christmas
Where the merry morning
stars
Disillusioned, waking up to
empty stockings-broken hearts!
Oh, the little window wishers,
looking longingIy today
At the wonders in The toy shops
in sweer childhood's wistful
way,
Dreaming dreams of Christmas
stockings filled with candies
and with toys;
Just as full of faith and fancy
as your own girls and your
boys.
Wnen you see their big eyes
glisten as these splendid
things they view,
Can you rush by and forget
them,
don't they touch the heart of
you'll
Detroit Free Press.
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Never judge a man by his
clothes. The man with a fringe
around the bottom of his trou-
ser, a slouch hat and worn out
shoes, may be the editor of your
local paper, while the man with
new clothes and new shoes may
simply be one of his delinquent
subscribers.
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NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

"Do you love me alonel" she
asked, after the manner of eau
tious maidens.
"Geel That's when I love you
most" he replied, somewhat
ambigously,
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