Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-01-14

citizens present, Mr.. Finch declared
that II all were to work in concert
for any one thing for Perth Amboy
that they would obtain their object
as easily as 1t was for each one TO De
present. Anything Is possible, hu-
manly speaking, when 200 or 300
men get together to accomplish II In
a city OF this size. The prime i'm
portance Of a board of trade is to
accomplish those things which with
out such an organization would be
considered everybody's business and
consequently ~nobody's business, and
be left undone. He referred to New
ark and Elizabeth as cities where
civic bodies had wrought great i'm
provements in the cities welfare.
He asserted that he could talk for an
hour in telling just what would be
achieved for Perth Amboy with a
large fourishing civic body.
Favors Advertising City.
Mr.. Finch said, though a stranger
and only having been here a few
hours, still he had seen ~innumerable
ideal locations for factories. He said
that men gain impressions of the city
when they come here, but II there Is
nothing to bring them to this place
they have no opportunity to appre-
ciate the advantage this municipality
has to offer. He spoke of advertising
as a medium for attracting people,
and stated that the Board of Alder
men, he understood, is willing to
make an appropriation for such
work. Papers and magazines he
suggested as good mediums for ad-
yertising. Manufacturers are con-
~stantly shifting their plants and
building new factories and, as a rule,
they desire a small city in preference
to a large one. But capitalists will
not know what advantages lie within
the corporate limits of this city I'M
less they are told, and a splendid way
of telling them Is through a CONNER
cial journal.
Mr.. Finch said he used to devote
his time to locating manufactures in
towns, and the first principle is to
get your man, the next get him in
terested and the mex make good
your claims after he decides to To-
cate In your town.
In speaking OF who benefits from
the additional factories In a town,
he said it is not the real estate nan
that gets the most of 1t, but 1T Is the
man who for year after year will
sell the employees of those plants
clothes, furniture, etc. Before a
manufacturer will locate here" con-
tinued the speaker, you will have
to show him that he will receive
equitable railroad rates, proper
dwellings, for his skilled labor, etc.
SO the board of trade has to go
further than looking after the indus
trial side of the matter, and as your
mayor has said, they also have to
keep the officeholders in the straight
and narrow path But aside from
all semi-humorous remarks, it Is not
fair for the citizens of the town to
put a man in office and then desert
him; they should support him with
sympathy and advise through his
term of office. The board of trade
needs to look after the head-edu-
cation, the heart-the humane side
of life, and the hand-industrial
work. The community that most
properly and normally develops
these three phases of its life Is the
place where people want to live.
Additional industries would make
labor more plentiful here, as labor
flocks where there is a plenty of
work"
Mr.. Finch said that other cities
were s%upportinf live, progressive
boards of trade, and that Perth Am
boy, in general, is like these cities.
A board of trade needs three things
right on the start, namely: Money,
enthusiasm and moral support. The
only way to effect a successful per-
manent organization Is to employ an
experienced pilot a secretary to look
after, vigilantly and Unnecessarily, the
affairs of the body
This Is what We want" said Mr..
Finch, land If we want 1t badly we
will work hard to attain It,"
Mr.. Finch asserted that In thirty
meetings of a similar nature he had
attended the last thirteen months,
he had not seer the enthusiasm rise
higher than was displayed at last
nights gathering. He declared the