Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1912-08-30
SUCCESS OF
LEWIS d.
SAMPSON
Splendid Work Done by Him
at ST. Paul Described in
worlds Work maqaZine.

| NihA heSONioAiOh ahh AuN NAibtNN "
President Dieterlie of that organiza
ton to the splendid work Of our for
mer townsman Lewis ID. Sampson
in building up the Cincinnati Com
mercial Association last year.
Readers of the Advocate will be
interested in an article in Worlds
Work for August referring to the
work OF Mr.. Sampson in forming
the st. Paul Association of Com
merce last year. Mr.. Sampson is
editor OF Town Development mag
azine which is published in Chicago
and New York. The article in
Worlds Work magazine is as follows:
"a quiet man came to St. Paul one
day and pointed out TO a few
choice souls in the promotion or.
gauization that they were not
doing all that could be done to
make St. Paul a greater city. They
frankly admitted his charge, but
made this defense: st. Paul they
said, was a peculiar place; the peo-
pie all loved it, but they did not pull
together, the chamber OF commerce
had difficulty in holding its small
membership and in collecting its
meagre fees of SO year: civic pride
was not organized and could not be
organized. I'VE have tried it and
we know" they added.
The quiet mans reply was: IL can
increase your membership by seven
hundred new members, enthusiastic
for better things, every one under
contract to pay not less than $25
year in dues for three years"
"Never," the committee replied.
1T simply can't be done"
They finally let him try, but they
all warned him that he was vast
ing his time.
First the quiet man arranged a
dinner for two hundred. Archbishop
Ireland attended and made happy
talk on the quite mans slogan, 81
believe in St. Paul." and Mr.. !. ].
Hill spoke for an hour and twenty
minutes. Other addresses followed
and, at a felicitous moment, when
enthusiasm was high. the quiet man
suggested that those men who
would volunteer to prove their faith
in St. Paul by giving two hours a
day for FIVE days of the following
week could signify that resolution
standing up. More than a hundred
men answered that call to duty.
The next day they discovered that
they had been making news the
night before-the papers were full of
matter about the great campaign
for st. Paul that they were to un-
dertake. At luncheon that day
they received instructions for their
campaign. The following Tuesday
morning every man reported at ten
o'clock. He quickly found himself
assigned to a squad of workers;
each squad was attended by a Sec
cretary who carried a card index of
the field to be worked by that
squad; every waste step was elimin-
ated and all Implications avoided.
By noon the fourteen squads were
ready for luncheon, and while they
ate they listened to the reports OF
the captains-so many memberships
secured by squad l, and their names
went up on a big blackboard with
the number of captures to their
credit chalked after them, and so on.
BY the end OF the luncheon every
squad had caught the spirit of rival
ry; by the luncheon on the third day
more than eleven hundred new
members had been secured; the ne VS.
papers were crowded with reports
OF the contest; and when the squads
reported finally at noon on Satur.
day they had more than fourteen
hundred new names on the cham
ber's rolls (they call il the Associa
ton OF Commeree) or more than
tw &c the number they said they
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