Smyrna times., 1910-12-28
BOOM YOUR HOME TOWN
A NEW YEARS. SUGGESTION
LET SMYRNA HAVE ACTIVE AND
PROGRESSIVE BOARD OF TRADE
No Town in the State Has More
Natural Facilities and Push and
Capital Will Make it Grow


Capital Will Make it Grow
Mr.. Editor The resolutions made
at the beginning of each New Year
are helpful in placing before us
ideals OF something better than that
to which we have as yet attained.
Such ideals, if practical, always have
an influence for good even if never
fully attained, for every effort of
improvement leads the individual
into higher and better plains of liv-
ing. Every town or community is
just what its citizens make it. and a
desire on the part of a people for a
better town is a prayer that is ALWAYS
answered. Twelve years ago, the
women of Smyrna banded themselves
together in forming The Twentieth
Century Club. The great success
attending their efforts is too we'll
known to require comment. 1t is
sufficient to say that their club life
has been constant realization of
the purpose expressed in their motto ::
always Moving Forward to Higher
Things"
The UpbuiIding of Our Industrial Life
An organization in Smyrna among
the men, somewhat along the lines
of The Twentieth Century Club, is
suggested. While the women con-
tribute so much and we'll to the So
cial and intellectual welfare of our
people, and the men get the benefit
of much that is excellent out of it.
the men of Smyrna, at the same
time, by concerted action should be
upbuilding the industrial, commercial
and business interests of the town
for the prosperity and material good
of every home in the community.
Is it not pity that our young men
must seek the city to gain a com
Portable livelihood and to build their
homes Are the natural possibilities
of the community to blame for this,
or are our people? Our soil is fer
tile. We have no extremes of clim-
ate. We are within close proximity
to the principal parts of the conti-
nent. Both railroad and water facil-
tiles place US within a few hours dis
tance of Philadelphia, New York
and Boston to the North and Balti-
more and the Nations capitol lie
close by to the South. Towns
farther removed on the peninsula as
Dover, Laurel, Cambridge and Sails
bury are rapidly growing from country
towns to prosperous cities. The
advantages of one town over another
are the result of the people rather
than natural conditions. In any
event, it was the people who first
saw the natural advantages-fre
quently some one individual saw them
first.
Why Smyrna Should Be Center
There is no reason why Cleveland
should have been the oil centre of
the world. There are no oil wells
there, and shipping facilities are
no better than a dozen others so far
as oil is concerned. 1t was simply
John D. Rockefeller. He wanted to
live there, and his personality, his
individuality, brought the oil to him
in pipe lines. There is no reason
why Boston should be the shoe man
ufacturing centre of tn eworld. No
hides are there-they are all shipped
from the West. Simply one man
who knew how to make shoes on
large scale wanted to live there, and
his success started others along the
same line. There is no physical rea
son why Chicago should have been
the beef packing centre. 1t might |
as well have been ST. Louis. Simply
old Phil Armour wanted to live there.
You hear people of the West in
mercantile, industrial, artistic and
scientific pursuits, saying: elf we
were only in Chicago, we coul1 get |
this or do that. " In Chicago you
hear people say: eff we were only |
in New York. - When you are in
New York you hear them say: eff |
only we were in London or Paris. -
Chicago, New York, London or Paris
are simply the results of their citi-
zens taking the material at hand and
doing the best they could with it.
Board of Trade Needed in Smyrna
If all the men of Smyrna and COM
munity were to band themselves to- |
gether for concerted action, hold reg
ular meetings, act through special
committees, and pay club dues what |
a power they could exert for the in
dustrial welfare of our people.
Smyrna is about the only town of any |
presumed consequence in the State,
to-day that does not have an active |
Board of Trade. Let US resolve that
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