Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-02-20
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY LoVe thySeF, and maRy aUW hdte thee.
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GOOD FOR GLOBE

That the business men in this city may better understand several of the more important pur- poses of the Globe chamber of commerce as di- rected by its new secretary, something of the success achieved by Mr. Rohrabacker in other cities is interesting just as this time.
 In Spokane, Portland and Lewiston, the chambers of commerce, or commercial clubs as they are sometimes known, were made to serve the purpose of board of arbitration in all mat ters concerning the public $ welfare. A "publc affair" committee was appointed to investigate all labor troubles arising within the circles of each organizations influence, this committee of ferng its good offices to both parties in effecting a settlement of their disputes.
 All matters concerning public contributions were referred by every merchant to the '.publc affairs committed This had salutary effect; it necessitated the promoters of every public en- tertainment, amusement philantropic, charita- ble or other enterprise to receive the indorse- ment of this committee before they could expect any support from the citizens. If the matter was worthy, this committee would recommend to the secretary of the chamber of commerce, that he make such donation from the funds at his command as was thought necessary to insure success On the contrary, if any proposition submitted was found unworthy after careful consideration, it was usually noted that the pub lie was certain to give scant notice to the re- jected enterprise.
 Thus 1t can be readily seen that if the mer- chants would make an annual contribution to the chamber of commerce and make the amount equal to their full yearly appropriation for such matters as referred to above, they would be re- heved, not only of the bothers consequent upon the thousand and one calls made upon them dur ing the year, but they would have united in one mighty and successful effort in ridding the com munity of many unworthy objects of charity. It would also put an immediate check to the launch ing of many "fy-by -the-night" schemes by which the merchants are drained nearly every week.
 AS was stated in the Silver Belt yesterday morning, Mir, Rohrabacker has already secured pledges for over 5000, and he states that most of this amount was forthcoming, more from the fact that his plan as carried out in other cities and which he is confident will be successful here, met with the approval of all those who had sub scrbed to the chamber of commerce fund and that other contributions have been promised for the same reason.
 Certainly, no better plan than this could be evolved, and it is thought that every merchant in Globe will join heartily with Mr. Rohrabacker III iI SuCctSSlul, ny lDefdllN to the chamber of commerce for this purpose alone.
 Another matter which is to be taken up by the Globe chamber of commerce and one which has worked out most successfully in other cities, is that of establishing "press bureau,' the pur- pose of which is to get into as many of the metropolitan dalies as possible, all of the news that looks to the encouragement of investors to exploit trade conditions, not in manner that will bring in the unemployed as is often the re- suit from certain kinds of fantastic advertising but more to picture the advantages that actual ly exist in many undeveloped and remunerative lines.
 press bureau can also have the effect of pro- hibiting vast amount of news in getting out that is detrimental to the best interests of the district and which in many instances is an ex- aggeraton of the true conditions. To conserve the best interests of the community to the people and to stife anything that may have harmful result upon local investments or those from abroad is another object of press bureau.
 As has been said, such plans those proposed by AIr. Rohrabacker have been successful else where and it is only to be supposed that, with