The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-02
THE QUEEN CITY IS
STAUNTON'S NAME
The Grown May Not Be
Just Ready, but 1t
Is Coming.
COOPERATION AND
PULL TOGETHER ALL.
Staunton Motto as Defined By
the New, Wide Awake Cham
Der of Commerce-Retiring
President Sounds Keynote,
Which New President
Takes UP.
nY EnANlH $. MonnsnN.

Stanton. Va, March Ill counted
myself fortunate that had the oppor-
tunity to attend the second annual
meeting OF the present Stanton Cham
Der of Commerce on day. or rather one
night last week. At this meeting I
caught some new and up TO date ideas
about the art OF pulling together. Iu-
cidentally, learned that up to about
TWO years ago, Staunton has not been
very much in the habit OF co-operat-
ing and pulling together. but Staunton
has. like some other good Virginia
towns. Richmond among them, been
learning little bit from experience,
and that little bit has been To the eff
feet that mighty little can be done in
a general way by individual effort In
dividual effort is "a good thing in it's
| mace, aud sometimes accomplishes
| very much in its way. but in the final
analysis concerted action and every
| body pulling together arc the things
awaks town. Stnunton has become "A
! I'VE, wide-awake town. which is but
another way OF saying that the people
1 are pulling together.
The Chnmbcr OF Commerce..
! stanton has had it's business organt-
Nations and it's boards Of trade and it's
chambers of commerce. but these bodies
! or the past have not done the half that
| they might have done had they been
able 10 get all OF the peoiic OF !, Nigh
4
! Chamber of Comluerc" 81 tue present
date "eems to have been able, in n way
ana IN very aood NAY, 10 get the peo-
| PIC 10 pulling together and TO work.
! Ing III concert for the generaI uphujltl-
! ing OF Que of the best towns in all OF
| Virginia.
The meeting | am talking about. and
/ winch had the honor some what UNI
/ cAnectedIy, TO attend. was the second
annual meeting OF the present Cham
Der of Commerce ,f -.
public meeting. hold in the theatre
building OF tho rowu, and every one OF
me 900 peopic who crowded into the
buiidns We're made welcome, The OF
! hcors of the chamber we're elected for
a term OF seai maybe two years. and
! then tn. BUSINESS of the evening he
! came something else.
Bright Outlook.
1 Inc report OF the retiring president
OF the chamber WAS Il feature az ths
meeting 1t may be a little stalo he
cause am sure that ts publication
/ III local paper has already attracted
/ the public eye. Nevertheless want In
use fe" extracts from it, w c. Mar
shaii was the retiring president and he
| was the man who has i'm a measure set
| the stanton chamber on n very rnoJ
| footing.
| In his report, Mr.. Marshall. firing "a
depsrtins shot. urged Tho people of
HtauhtVh TO depend primarily upon .
/
growth do 1t from the inside" he
said, and do not expe,t to brinz -
from the outside"
continuing. i'o spoke of good work
| that has been done, and said:
rms years work has bean ouiet
put persistent and | believe has sc-
compiished much for our town. espe.
claliy IN bringing our people together
ana inducing them to recornize tba
soo" points III our town and to cuiti-
'"te readiness among them to assist
\ IN any effort to advance our commu
/ nitY.
/ We have Issued and very nearly dis.
tr'buted 5000 of that most attractivs
booklet. Come to stanton which
mas nesn complimented from all over
~" uhieo states, and have even
heard from II in England and Ger
many
"Starnton has just given splen.
o'u eNhicltion Of what can be done
Wn,n We pull together. The woodrow
,lson birthday celebration was y
/ o'd his Part with Willingness and vim
out thought OF personal beneft
bei,eNe tina, the great success of ,his
/ Undertaking VAS in part due to the fact
/ 'hft h'anN of or people had been
! working in our Chamber Of ,-o,nmarca
and had learned to pun together
There has been lu,ici, talie Of hr,rz
! ing factories 30 our toNu Your cham
1 het ha7 Tivcn much thought aud effort
I III the past wear IN this matter There
gre 'hice "nyT of building Is city. by
depending on agriculture trode aud
| manufacturing. we are IN f,reat
| agricultural section. but Aue,uats farm
era have developed that Industry 10 /.
very high point; orr trade is being
| pushed 10 it's utmost. and NO must
lool To TnannfaCtuiug for further de
! veiopmcut, Il IS" Wish 10 grow faster
| than II Is" .implN depended on natural
| growth N the other two directions. and
We must do i' from The inside and not
| expect 10 bring il from the outside
| We have several splendid examples or
what can te do,c hero IL our people
! Viii only try out now lines
Pnst Achievements.
/ some years AZ" q gentleman start
ed in Il music store on Main street. and
III the back rsrt of the room com
menced 10 make organe To-day his
firm has the largest exclusive reed
organ factory in tho world
In the back part OF that same room
two Young mon Of our town commenced
to cut out aud letter pe1nants and had
! one woman cmpoycd 10 sew the lot
| ters on the pcnnpnts no day they
fhnve one OF the iarges, pcnnant fac-
/ tories ia america. and thor travelling
| men tour our country from tho Atlantic
TO the fa9iet and from Maii.e to ,rs.as
! "A few other gentlemen cast their
/ eyes ,,pou ono Of tho apparently most
/ overdone tiues OF business In this
| coun'ry ana to day TIT overall factory
! cannot fill all the orders that ii. can
! secure. 81
! These splendid examples show what
1 can be done here IL oilr Young men
will strike out on some new line and
our older men will bncN up such en-
I tsrprises. Our citizens must and
I should ondeavor to take no ao,ne rev
| line instead OF crowdiGs tnia serBe al "
ready overcrowded line t,tasdc swf.arsi 81
| there is hope OF only small succsea, AMI
\ this when the whole country is tins