Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1911-08-02
BOARD OF TRADE
TO BE ENLARGED
DIRECTORS MEET AND ENDORSE
THE CHAMBER OF COM
MERGE PLAN.
A BIG ORGANIZATION '
To BE Formed With Individuals and
Commercial Bodies rs Members
TO Celebrate "White Way Day"

The most important meeting OF the
Board Of Trade since the arrival OF
Secretary w. E. L. Koepler was held
in their headquarters in the Citizens
Bank Building yesterday afternoon at
3 o'clock. The full board of directors
was in attendance and the desire OF
the members which has been current
among them for some time and grad
ually gaining momentum to merge the
organization in a broader plan to en-
brace all other commercial bodies
came to a head. Every public spirit
ed citizen of Pine Bluff, many OF
whose views has been entertained by
the new secretary, has expressed ap-
prevail of such a plan and he placed
before the Board of Trade a rough
outline of what it is proposed to make
the new Chamber of Commerce, Com
merce Commission or whatever the
organi sation will be named. The
new features that will be introduced
quickly aroused the enthusiasm of
the members present and lively dis
eussion followed.
Everybody will be asked to join
! the new organization, every CONNER
cial organization in body TO retain
it's identity but be branch of the
parent body; every business house
and every industry will be taken in.
| Every individual citizen who has a
feeling of public spirit for Pine Bluff
will be invited to join and wear
Pine Bluff button for some means OF
identification which all will surely do
with pride when they come to realize
the good the Chamber of Commerce
+ is going to do for Pine Bluff and
when they get to know what a good
old town they live in and what a
bright future it has. The new or
ganization is going to be everybody S
organization and means a city among
cities for all who have lived in the
logical spot for great city so long
without realizing it's possibilities and
working together to improve their
opportunities.
TO start the movement in system
attic shape committee composed OF
w. n. Trulock, E. A. Howell and }.
H. Mann was appointed to confer
with similar committees from other
ORGANIZATIONS and develop Secretary
Koepler's plan for Chamber OF
Commerce. The committee was CIV
en- power to treat with the other bod
les in all matters relating to the pro-
posed consolidation and as the COM
mittee is composed of the most ac-
tive workers for the welfare of Pine
Bluff among Board Of Trade members
rapid developments are expected from
the important movement launched
Tuesday afternoon.
At the suggestion of the secretary
I
which the "White Way" of Pine Bluff
is installed was discussed. Authority
was given the secretary in this con
nection to cooperate with the Pin'
Bluff Corporation and the Retail
Merchants Association and Others
concerned to work up plan for
parade or other ceremony to celebrate
white Way Day" Pine Bluff vii
on the completion of the work begun
on the new lights have the only com
plete white Way" in the state o
Arkansas. Other cities have a par
tial lighting If their streets on tn
white Way" plan but Pine Bluff
will have every business block dotte
with twelve ornamental posts, eac
bearing four sixteen-inch globes.
A discussion, of the co-operativ
plan of building a road in Jefferso
county to Wild Cat followed and re
suited il Secretary Koepler being in
structec to vlite Judge c. NJ. Phil
rot that any assistance desired an
possible would be rendered as tn
Board Ct Trade desired to go on re
cord as approving this plan of i'm