Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-05-08
SMALL CITIES NEED BOARDS OF
TRADE.

1t is not very often that one finds the
fact disputed that small cities re-
quire the assistance of organized bo-
dies Of business men to promote their
welfare equally as much as the cities
Of greater population and commercial
Importance. 1t has become generally
recognized that in the small cities
there is just as much work of local
Importance to be done through the
cooperative efforts of the local bust.
ness men as in the large cities. In.
deed, very often the small cities neet
such united efforts more than thei1
more pretentious neighbors. After Z
city reaches a certain size, attains 8
commanding Importance, the very mo.
mentum it has achieved carries it for.
ward. 1t is not so with the small
town. 1t must be constantly up and
doing to prevent itself from falling
into condition of inertia, from drop
ping into state of decay. And il
is in keeping alive to it's opportuni-
ties, in making the world outside an
preciate them, and in arousing and
stirring up and keeping stirred UP
the people of the community in which
it is at work, that the board of trade
in small city becomes a powerful
medium for progress and prosperity
one whose usefulness cannot be over
rated.
Recently the Seneca, S. c., Farm
and Factory" asserted that such or
CARNATIONS were, as a rule, institu-
tons that small cities cannot sus-
tain with an ydegree of success. The
Augusta Chronicle promptly takes the
paper in question to task and very
properly says:
rms is surprising, coming as it does
from the paper and community it
does, and especially from that section
OF South Carolina. They not only can
be sustained with success, but ought
to be a feature of every small town
and city, though it is true a numher
have been started and died out with
out any high degree of accomplish
ment; a fact due entirely to a lack of
lasting spirit A mistake almost AL
ways made by such organizations in
the smaller. communities is that of fix
ing too firmly their minds on the
things accomplished by similar organ
lzations in larger cities; starting out
with an over-enthusiastic spirit in an
attempt to be come rivals and gener-
ally meeting with disbursement.
which not only dampens but actually
browns all ardor to go things.
There are, though, a good MANY
IoWns-not small ''cfties" -which have
organized chambers of commerce or
boards of trade where vast benefit has
been derived land where the organiza-
ton have become a fixture in the
commercial life. And they have done
It by every business man constitute
ing himself working factor in the
organization.
Ihese organizations are just as es-
sential to the small communities as
they are to the larger ones, and, in a
day when advertising your towns adj
Vantages to the world" has begun to
play SO important a part in the event
uai accomplishment Of things, the
town or small city without them is
simply dead one
"hen the Times-Recorder recalls
the effective work the Board of Trade
mas done in Americas it can heartily
endorse every word the Chronicle Mt
ters on this line. If any place needs
a board Of trade it is the-small, as
piring city. It needs it far more than
the city of larger size. Americas will
certainly never be without one.