The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-03-19

TRADE
Team Work on Part Of Local
Merchants Necessary.
STRIKE OUT CATALOGUE MEN

that? II ig team work tkae wins. In
sports and in business It is team work
that takes the pennant. knocks the
persimmon. bags the gans.
The baseball teams Of the big leagues
have gone south to practice team
work BY the time the bali season
opens every team will have become
unit or efficiency. Every man on
the team will have studied thoroughly
and conscientiously every other man.
All viii have come to a mutual UNDER
standing. The catchers Will know the
kinks and curves or the pitchers. the
shOrtstop will know how to cooper
ate with the basemen. and the base
men and the outielders will be In
complete articulation for skillfu plays.
II Is just the same III football. Every
man on the eleven must be thoroughly
drilled I'D team work before going on
TO the gridiron for a big game. If any
man is found deficient in his ability
to cooperate with the rest OF the team
he goes off the eleven in jiffy. SO
1t is with the members Of the varsity
eights who row for college honors, II
No. 4 can't hit it off with the stroke
oar. out Of the boat he goes. A long
pull. strong pull aud pull all TO-
gether-and it's the pull altogether
that shows proficiency in team work
| Co-operation-team work-ought to
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man endeavor where it is desirous that
community results be achieved. No
man lives for himself alone. we are
told. Ii he tries 1t be Is not likely to
live TO old age or to be very happy
while be does live
All this little preliminary preachment
! wish to apply to the problem Of town
Improvement Every citizen 10 the
town should be member or the team
and should study assiduously TO de
velop team work to its highest eff
cheney. In too many towns there is no
organization whatever. and even where
there Is organization Of some sort there
is too often lack of harmony between
individuals.
The merchants OF every town ought
to get together and do some team work
against the greatest menace TO their
prosperity-the mail order trust The
mail order people are fully organized
They have their employees trained to
do 6ne team work In advertising and
exploiting goods. The home merchants.
instead OF lighting each other. might
pun together Id a campaign against
the mail order people and profit there
by.
This is world in which system
rules The stars ia the heavens do
splendid team work Each keeps to
its appointed orbit. so that it will not
interfere with the progress OF any 9TH
cr star or Of the system; otherwise
there would be collisions and chaos.
The difference between civilization and
anarchy Is mere matter Of system
team work, cooperation. organization.
The wisdom of the ages has developed
certain laws. we must obey the laws
il we belong t. the team. II we don't
we'l belong the lock step process
sion or the chain gans
System runs through the whole ga
mut Of human institutions. No man
or firm can build up successful busl-
ness without insisting upon team work
on the part OF the employees. And no
town can make any definite progress
under average Conditions unless the in
dividnals comprising its citizenship are
willing TO sink their individuality to
a certain extent and work with the
team-trot right along in harness.
know towns which are a delight to
the eye-wel kept streets. well built
houses. up to date public buildings.
tidy stores, and all that They possess
an air OF general prosperity and pride.
find thattn most OF such towns there
is considerable amount Of prelimi-
nary team practice ON the part OF the
citizens before anything definite is
achieved in the town improvement
line. on the other hand. know towDs
just as advantageously located and as
promisingly environed which give an
outsider tile impression Of shoe run
down at the heel OF last years birds
nest
Upon investigation discover that in
the towns Of this latter class there is /
no community organization whatever,
except Ia some Instances where therc
exists q dormant commercial club or
something Of the sort. whose members
have put It to sleep by pickering
among themselves In other words.
they never learned team work AS 4
consequence the town creeps along in f
the same old dusty ruts.
Those American cities which ID the +
past quarter Of a century have made
the most surprising development are
the ones III which cooperation has
been uppermost Their citizens have
pulled together.
Any person who does not take pride
In the place where be lives should
move elsewhere Perhaps he can fnd
a place TO be proud Of But in all I
probability II he would only put on
bis thinking cap aud look around him,
with an eye open to advantages aud
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