Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-04-04
Optimism Keynote of Ad-
dress by New CONNER
cial Secretary.
HARMONY NECESSARY
Mr.. Bloom Believes Aims of Organiza'
ton will Be Easily Accomplished
If All Cooperate.

outlined by E. B.. Bloom, the new
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, at the meeting of the trus-
tees yesterday. President N. j. Can't,
sixteen trustees and the new secre-
tary were present.
This, the first formal meeting be-
tween the new secretary and The d.
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce,
was harmonious and very brief. In
delivering his message to the rus
tees, Mr.. Bloom again expressed his
appreciation for the honor bestowed
on him by his election to the secre-
.aryship.
During the course of his address
he approved plans for identifying
the city by improving the park and
urged the necessity of public libra
ry. He expressed himself as being
| we'll pleased with the work being
done by the traffic bureau, saying it
was a necessity, complimenting w.
M. Taylor, the commissioner of The
| bureau, and said the Chamber of
Commerce would at all times CO.
operate with the bureau. The task OF
increasing Pine Bluffs population to
10000 by 1920, he said, may not prove
as great as it now seems, if all will
work together. 49,.
A smoker for the entire member
ship will be held this month. The
entertainment committee was in
structed to take the matter in hand
and make all arrangements. Thct
date has not yet been affixed.
The trustees complimented Secre-
tary Bloom on the Bulletin" which
has been issued by him since the
first of the week, and asked that they
be sent copies regularly. He was in
structed to employ delivery boy to
distribute it.
Six Additions to Honor Roll.
Secretary Bloom reported the ad-
dition of six new members, whose
subscription will aggregate 1926 a
year. He was instructed to select a
delegate to attend the United Com
mercial Travellers convention at
Texarkana in May in an Effort to have
Pine Bluff selected as the meeting
place in 1915.
Mr.. Blooms address to the trus-
tees follows:
"Mr. President: Members of the
Chamber of Commerce, Fellow
Citizens of Jefferson County:
please permit me to again thank
you for the honor that you have
given me in electing me your Sec
rotary.
81 have been honored many times
and many ways by the good people OF
| this city and county. Honored in
such a way that necessarily but a
| small per centage of the citizens OF
| any community can receive. But in
honoring me with the important posi-
tion of secretary of this organization,
carrying with it as it does. the well
fare and progress of our commercial,
agricultural and industrial interests
! cannot help but feel that this is
indeed the greatest compliment as
we'll as the most important RESPONSE
bility of my career.
ITO meet the expectation of my
friends, to make the Pine Bluff
Chamber of Commerce, one of the
leading organizations of it's kind in
the south and 10 crown with success
the unselfish ambition | have in be-
half of the organization, the city and
the county, | hereby pledge my very
heart and soul.
ITO give Pine Bluff and Jefferson
county the Importance its natural
advantages entitle it to, there must be
complete community Of interest
Harmony must prevail between city
and county; merchant and merchant
banker and banker; farmer and
farmer; carrying out the oft proven
assertion that in Unity there is
Strength, and without which, very
little can be accomplished; but with
which, there is nothing that our good
old town cannot obtain and no az
complishment will be too great to
undertake.
Right here, fellow citizens, let me
ask the question: Did you ever stop
to think how easy it is to get along
nicely together, and how much more
pleasure you derive for yourself and
afford everyone else by doing sos
1T is the easiest and most prof.
table accomplishment we can UNDER
take.