The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-04-29

Speaker Tells Grand Forks Audiencoj
OF Many Important Featmes-suc.
ceeds in Stirring Up Much End
Service to the community was tfad
keynote Of the brilliant and eloQuent]
speech on city development that was]
given last night at the COMMERCIAL
club by Edward Trefz. commercial
evangelist" representing the United1
States chamber of commerce. Thod
address was not only the best ever?
heard at a commercial club hanquet1
put for sound common sense and in.
sptration was about the best heard att
any time by those who were fortun.,
ate enough to be present.
The banquet last night opened theJ
campaign to put the Commercial club
on the budget plan. This means that
instead OF raising money from time
to time. as needed, a large fund Will
be raised now and the club freed from
the task Of raising money for the ball
called for last night to go forth and
collect this amount. AS result
twenty men In four teams Of five men
each this morning commenced to can.
Nass the business men of the city for
this sum. The campaign will be car
rted on for three days.
=. The assa9 most active year Of Its career
Money is needed to finance its work.
The amount will not be much larger
than the amount raised in driblets in
previous years.
The money will be expended as in
the past for good roads. traffic con-
yeniences. publicity. manufacturing
ventions. entertainment. RAILROADS
The creation Of the new traffic bureau
Will call for large amount Of the
sum. One Of the biggest problems
racing Grand Forks Is the transporta-
tion problem. Determined efforts will
be made to have the railroad service
facilities perfected. -
Banquet Well Attended.
The banquet last night was the best
present being over 175. The Elks
offered the use Of their club rooms
for the banquet. the Commercial club
dining room being rather small for
such large gathering. The univer-
sity quartet. composed Of w. w. Nor
ton, Lawrence Anderson, Torrance
Qufrke and Oscar Preble rendered
ousines men certainly seemed to like
music with their meals"
Shows Great Change.
Mr.. Trefz had as the subject Of his
address Community Development"
He said that the era Of the CONNER
cial club did not open until after the
Spanish-American war had not only
reunited the north and south but had
concentrated the attention of the
business men OF the country upon one
big subject. The age Of animosity in
business has passed-the spirit Of co-
operation and construction. instead Of
destructive. cut-throat competitor 10.
prevailing over the entire country.
Resources are not what make the.
city" stated My. Trefz, ''the develop.
ment OF city depends upon the char>
acter of the men living in the city.
place Morgan. Rockefeller or q,
desert" said he. "and they wouldq
soon have a canal to the sea and at]
flourishing city on the sands.'
Mr.. Trefz illustrated his contentious
by tracing the remarkable growth OIL
Chicago. With every handicap re.
tarding her progress the city burst all
bonds and bounds and has surpassed
many other cities with much better
transportation facilities to start with.
Chicago is now the railroad center.
Marshall Field, Phil Armour, Charles
Grove have made Chicago what It isI
In only seventy-eight years New York
was hoary with old age when Chicago
was was still stu Fort, Fort Dearborn: Chicago
Of a mans life than has Paris in
1900 years and London in 1900
years. 1t is all due to the character
of the men behind Chicago.
Citizens "Diln't Caro-"
sandusky. Ohio. better situated than
Chicago. better situated than Ceve-
land. the best laid out city in the
United States. the city with every ear.
mark of world heater" is now a
city of only $4,000 people. The resi-
took what they could out Of the city
1t dry"-and left it. They
couldn't see the possibilities Of the
sent their sons away to
other flelds-and Sandusky Is husk,
Kansas City at one time found q
powerful railroad corporation laying
grim plans to smother it out of exist
ence because of some action taken by
the city. Chicago and st. Louis stood
by ready to see Kansas City die. KAN
sas City stood alone and up against
1t" The character of the men Of that
city was discovered when the big rail-
ROAD corporation. which was endeayOr.
ing to leave the city. had to admit
that they had not received one pound
of freight from Kansas City. and had
carried only three passengers out Of
Kansas City. The railroad is today
the best friend of Kansas City with
her population of 25O.000 people.
Character counts.
Co.Operation Important.
The building Of a city Mr.. Trefx
declared depends upon three things-
cooperation between the head, the
hand and the heart. The head well
represents the educational side Of the
city. No city should let anything
stand in the way of the education OF
Its young people. Ignorance should
be absolutely done away with. Grand
Forks is we'll taken care of in this
said Mr. Trefz. Few uni-
are as we'll known over the
west as the North Dakota uni
and few western universities
are as we'll known In the east as your
1t is a great credit to tho
entire state" The "hnnd" stands for
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