Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-02-20
TAKES IN
BIG; SCOPE,
The Trenton Idea" of ! Com
mercial Club is Attracting
National Publicity.
WATERFOWL MAY TRY IT OUT
Rev. Father Tierney Writes -,
Able and Interesting Article
on the Subject.

M
Z, B. Reynolds. one Of the success
full farmers residing southeast OF Wa
stertown, has handed us q copy abf q !
Missouri paper containing long ar
ticle on the Trenton idea. :
The Trenton idea" is attracting ma.
tional notice and its marvellous success
where it has been tried ought to slim
ulate Watertown to adopt the plan
and push 1t to early success. Boosting
city to the neglect of the country
has never accomplished very much
except in isolated cases, and often
tends to- widen the artificial breach
between two classes of citizens whose
interests should lead them to work to-
gether. Too many city organizations
of this kind langnish because they
fall into the hands Of clique, but
this clergymans ideas are SO broad
and liberal that they stimulate all
classes to cooperate.
Father Tierney writes thus to the
SL. Joseph EFesS. 395sa
What is the Trenton idea?" "A
brief, concrets answer to this queB-
tion will be OF interest not only to,
those from various parts Of the coun-
try who have made inquiries. but also
prove valuable, hope. to the many
communities which will eventually be-
come interested in the Trenton idea.
THE Trenton idea i'd not spon-
taneous thing. il is4the natural fruit
age of time and condition. 1T simply
means that in this twentieth century
of commercial supremacy and agricul-
tural efficiency, the farmer and the
business man unite and cooperate in
the fullest sense Of the term.
The operation Of the idea In our
community was successful from the
start. Trenton. with population OF
1000, became the field Of activity for
commercial club Of 500 members,
about half of whom are farmers. Thus,
from the very beginning, the Trenton
idea was put to work and the slogan
of the aggregation naturally grew out
Of the development of the idea. Tho,
slogan is THE Trenton idea is not
lazy-it works" In February. 1912.
the Commercial club Of the city Of
| Trenton decided that the results OBJ,
tanned in the past were not entirely
satisfactory. After q general discus
sion and an exchange Of ideas be-
tween the individuals composing the
organization the Trenton idea was
evolved. The thought is by no means
new, but its success In appealing to
the intelligence of the community
seeking for the highest form Of COM
mercial development has awakened
the interest of thinkers throughout the
country. Leading trade journals and
magazines of Importance have featur-
ed its origin, accomplishments and
future significance, as result of
which Trenton, Grundy county, Mo-, is
in the limelight. 1t proclaims in prac.
teal terms the reaching out for wider
fields hitherto untouched; effects a
closer cooperation of the agricultural
and the commercial communities; pro-
notes the permanent union of the in
terests Of all the people in the trade
territory. The Trenton idea obliter-
ates the established, legal, but imag-
mary, line between the town and the
country. 1t extends the zone of ac-
tivity from the central point of the
real town to the circumference of the
community at large. 1t ignores the
tendency to confine the tr.de and
commercial activities within the limits
Of town or city as marking the
sphere and works to the end that the
interests of all are interests of each.
1t includes both business and social
activities of life, and gives vent to the
urban and suburban energies of the
town and the farm.
With this range Of thought clearly
before them, the members Of the Tren-
ton commercial club agreed to in.
augurate a new campaign for mem
bership. The new commercial club
was to contain not only the citizens of
the town of Trenton, but also the
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