The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1911-08-08
THE DEVELOPMENT OF UTAH
Advantages and Respo possibilities o.
Membership in Your Own Com
merciaI Club.

The first question that instinctively
arises in the mind of every live man
as soon as the suggestion is made to
him that he ought to be an active
member Of his own commercial club,
Is What am going to get out OF it,"
And II the matter cant be laid before
him in light that Is advantageous to
his pocket-book his interest soon lags.
Lest this estimate Of human beings ap
pear too low, it might be added that
the question applies with equal force
to intellectual, moral and spiritual
things. In religion or business, in law
or in love, it is ever the same. Does
it pay?" Men choose those paths
which they think pay, men join those
organizations which appear profitable
to them financially or otherwise. So
the local commercial club must come
under the rule, What are you going
to get out of it,"
Leaving aside the social advantages,
because they can be filled by other or
CARNATIONS, there are number OF
qualities distinctly within the province
VI LILO COmAlCI NldA SiAbos AAo~~-@
stated the clubs primal purpose is to
foster everything which tends to make
your town grow. Is there need OF
railroad? The club bends every energy
towards getting it. Do you need
brick yard, an electric plant, or any
kind OF manufacturing establishment?
The club gets it. Have you no town
hall? The club crystallizes sentiment
in that direction. Do you wish streets
opened up, roads repaired and bridges
built? Is your school system out OF
date? The club takes the initiative
in seeing that these changes are made.
| Are there evils to be overcome? Have
you drunken fences" and poor side
walks? Is the city council lax in en-
forcing the laws? The club, by having
the best blood of the city in its ranks,
Yields an influence strong enough to
correct those evils.
Today there are scores OF CONNER
cial organizations doing just such
work in the state of Utah. One club,
founded only five years ago, is directly
responsible for establishing bank, an
up-to-date water system, complete
electric-lighting plant and number
of other substantial businesses In
town which prior to that time had gone
on "in the even tenor of it's way for
a half a century. That same club is
perfecting plans whereby quarter OF
a million of dollars will be expended
in the community. AS direct result
of the above campaign for good roads
good water and good schools, property
values have risen from so to 100To
and every land owner is enjoying the
result of that raise, to say nothing Of
: the increased comfort, the munlclpa
, cleanliness and the satisfaction of liv
: ing in a progressive community. The
question. then, is relevant, Does il
pay?" Unquestionably, yes. Had every
citizen of that town been furtherins
the work of improvement, instead o
having some who tried to block the
:. wheels every time start was made
the progress would have been ten-folt
what it has been. AS a matter Of dol
, lars and cents the argument is IRE
, sistable, but when it comes to keepin!
in tune with the MOVING world thu
personal advantages are simply enor
nous.
The duties of such membership ar
many, but not particularly arduous.
. every member puts zest into his wOrl
= the clubs efforts will bear fruit; /
not it's work is likely to prove abortive
y One has constantly to overcome the ls
Dor of the knocker, who unfortunatel,
can't see the good that is bound t
come out of such toiling. But God b
thanked for the knOcker. He show
us how little we might be were W
not members of the boosters society
| Responsibility of membership carrie
| with it an attendance to all meeting:
| the payment of all dues, since the con
| mercial lubricant is necessary to SUI
| cess, unity of action in all thing
1 and a persistent effort to build u
yOHr town.
To sum up, the commercial club
\ 70 town life, what lungs are to tn
human body. If the body gets impur
4 air and injurious gases, its work
sluggish and it may die; if the con
I me. cial club ceases to exist, the tow
I is asphyxiated.