Atlanta Georgian., 1913-09-29
CHAMBER
W|DENS SCOPE
Of ACTIVITY
Seeks 1000 Members, Annual
$4,000 Budget and National
Field for Exploitation.

A campaign to increase the mem
bership to 1000 by November l has
been inaugurated by the executive
committee of the Georgia Chamber Of
Commerce. In addition to securing
individual memberships and the af-
filiation of oabrds of trade and
chambers Of commerce, efforts are
being made to obtain the assistance
and cooperation Of the railroads, tel
egraph and telephone companies, land
and development corporations and
other large industrial enterprises.
Results will be reported at an ex-
ecutive committee meeting called by
President c. J. Haden for October 6
at the Hotel Dempsey in Macon. and
at that time plans for the completion
of the campaign will be made. Sew
eral other phases Of the work Of the
State Chamber also will be taken up.
One OF them is a suggestion to en-
ploy expert organizers to place the
Georgia Chamber of Commerce on a
firm financial foundation.
To Raise $4,000 Annually.
The executive committee has also
announced that 1t intends to raise not
less than $4,000 every year. The Tex
as Commercial Secretaries and Busi-
ness Mems Association, upon which
the Georgia Chamber is modeIeI
spends annually $4,000, and the Off
GERS Of the Georgia organization are
confident that Georgians will respond
to the movement equally as gener-
ously.
This $35, 900 will be expended in ad-
vertising the resources of Georgia
throughout the United States in an
effort to attract manufacturers and
business men of the better class.
Booklets and pamphlets will be puo-
lished setting forth the advantages OF
the State, and force of lecturers and
investigators will be employed. 1t ls
the purpose of the organization 10
make the Georgia Chamber a clearing
house for the most advanced thought
of the day, for the development of the
State of Georgia along the lines Of
better roads, better sanitary condi-
tions, better agricultural methods,
more manufacturing enterprises, bet
ter methods Of marketing agricultural
products, and methods Of bringing the
farmers and business men of the State
TO a closer recognition of their mu-
tual interests.
25 Organizations Affiliate.
Since the second State wide meet
ing of the organization in Macon on
| September IS, ESQ Georgians have
Joined the chamber as individual
| members, paying dues of IS a year
for term of three years, and 25 local
commercial organizations have be-
come affiliated. These include the
boards of trade and chambers of COM
merce Of Macon. Waycross. LAGRANGE
Madison, Sylvester, Atlanta. Albany,
i Americus, Columbus, Manchester
Cordele. Washington, Ocilla, Dublin,
Newman, Reidsville, Springfield Alb
beville, Kirkwood, Camilla, Pelham,
Fitzgerald, Griffin, Lithonia. Decatur
and Clarkesville; also the Ad Mems
Club of Atlanta, the Waycross Real
Estate Mems Association. the Wom-
ans Improvement Association of Ma
con and the Bibb County Agricultural
Institute.
In order that She people OF the state
may be Kept in close touch with what
the organization is doing, a vice pres
ident is being selected for each of the
146 counties OF the State. This list is
not completed. and In each case the
greatest care is being taken to get
for the position man recognized in
his county as a leader and a worker.