Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-02-13
A COUNTY FAIR To b. HELD
HERE NEXT FALL. CERTAIN.
THIS MEANS you!

AA4Ao AGANO xVUS
Inc call for the organization of the
Greater Hendersonville Club came, NOT
as an inspiration. but an evolution.
/ 4 force like this organization is
born. not IN response to the will of an
Individual. nor the brilliancy of an
idea. but because of a vital necessity
that is found to exist. sufficiently
strong to impel business men to forget
competition. to obliterate sectional
and political lines, and even foregC
selfish gain in their desire for its Gre
alton and development.
The Greater Hendersonville Club
however. asks only for that support
which those identified with the inter
ests Of Hendersonville and Henderson
county care to give. 1t should have q
membership of four hundred, and be-
fore the present campaign is closed ii
is confident that that mark will be
reached. The organization has classi-
fled its energies in two groups:-a
civic group and a commercial group.
In the civic group, the Club directs
its energies toward
An annual increase in popula-
ton:
Clean air to breathe;
Pure water to drink:
Amusements for visitors;
A safe community to visit and in
which to dwell:
A community that plans it's public
improvements for the future.
In the second grOup-the CONNER
e1al-the organization carries out the
following subjects
Loyalty to the community's own
merchants and productionss
To organize for conventions;
To invite new industries;
To advertise in every honorable
and right manner:
To be watchful of state and ma
tlonalg legislation. aiding those
entrusted with the framing of
our laws to make wise laws, not
prejudiced to business, but with
al such as will preserve to the
people at large all of the rights
and protection which such a
government as ours promise.
Three things are absolutely essential
to the conduct of our organization in
order to carry on such work as de-
scribed: ~
The first is numerical strength.
The second, a suf1cieny of rev.
enue
The third, personal service vice
of the members in carrying on
the work.
Revenue will come with numerical
strength, but the minimum dues
should not represent the limit of inan-
cial responsibility of our commercial
interests; every senior officer Of the
1arge business houses and each CO.
partner in an enterprise, should hold a
membership, purchased by his concern
or by himself individually. Don't be
scanty in Financial support.
/ To attain the community's highest
usefulness a commercial association
must represent every phase of the
communitys commercial life. Numer-
ical strength is a guaranty Of democ-
Facy and an evidence of power.
Our numerical strength and our suf-
ficiency of revenue will prove of little
value without YOU. We are not un-
mindful that the larger the communi-
ty, the more difficulty it is for the cit
izen to participate in many of the
phases of it's development, and the
more inclined one is to let others do
the work. Your money will not ofer
effective competition to the personal
service as represented in sacrifice OF
time and comfort which hundreds and
thousands of men in competing cities
are devoting to the work. The energy.
the brain, the loyalty, which these
men are contributing to the advance
ment of their cities, through their re-
spective organizations, is worth more
than the combined revenues of all the
organizations, for the element OF sacr1-
fee for the public good is making our
Wetsern North Carolina citizenship
strong, generous and self-rel1ant.