The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-12-01
BELLOWS FALLS NEWS
BROAD ORGANIZATION NEEDED
Business Interests of Community Not
Sufficiently Promoted.

a somewhat informal MEETING was
held III the office of +. l.. Walker ono
Gay last week Of the committee chosen
al the animal meeting of the board Of
trade 10 consider the WAYS and means
81 making that organization an active
force IN the village. The committee
consists OF +. l.. Walker, II. IT. An
bolt, j. G. Dennison. d. NJ. Damon and
W. {. Bclknap. This was the first
meeting held by the committee and i
deNeloped that no progress had been
made IN forming any plans for better
iIeht OF conditions. The need of a live
organization which shall !ook at the
pest interests of Bellows Falls as a
Whole, instead Of the interests of GER
tam classes, is fully appreciated. ana
there are 4 number Of strong business
men ready to take hold of it, but the
lnaction OF the board for the last vear
coupled with the activity of an assccia
ton which can comprise in It's mem
bership only a small part OF the GEN
etal business interests of the place
renders the situation awkward to saw
tho least.
The Merchants association is en-
titled to great credit for its activity
and accomplishments along the lines
which they are organized for, and thew
are doing admirable work. They have
definite interests, rules and bylaws.
however, III which the greater part of
our population can have no interest or
part. In fact there are said to be some
basic principles OF. their organization
IN which larger part Of our people
might have opposite ideas, such as
methods OF blacklisting debtors, and
the diseouraging Of trade from outside
farmers and others, which might in any
way interfere with the sales of local
merchants. These practices are all
right, possibly, but they are not such
as would i'll any event be Joined in
heartily by business men Interested IN
other lines.
The impression gained currency that
the committee voted to disband the old
board Of trade and practically ask the
Merchants association to take all the
business interests of Bellows Falls nm
der ITS wings asking it to represent
them all, the manufacturing, the bank
ing, the civic and all the community in
terests, but some members of the com
mlttec of the board of trade DENY This
intent. 1t is the Judgment OF some thar
such action would not tend to unity
OF action which would accomplish re-
suits.
\ new organization should be eff
fected, broad enough to include all
classes Of business and citizenship
with its different departments of man.
utactWe. commerce, village improve
ment ana All the various needed activ-
titles organized within it. OF this the
Merchants association should be one
department with its interests as fully
protected As now, but being part Of
q larger organization. In this way its
autonomy could be preserved. and ne
ton taken along lines of its own inter
eStS IN Just the same independent way
as IS done in many other cities and vii.
lagos where the parent organization is
made to be power for the upbuildinr
OF the municipality as a whole. If
ever Bellows Falls needed strong null
together by every loyal citizen it is
now, and a great factor in this-yes
an Indispensable factor-is an. ORGAN.
lzatlon Of all our community inter
ests in some way 50 that action
can he taken as whole. instead Of each
person for himself as now.