South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-03-18
AMALGAMATION IS
FAVORED BY MIX
Factory President is Principal
Speaker at First Banquet OF
MiShaWaka Chamber OF
Progress.

Probably the most enthusiastic
body Of AfishaWaka business men.
professional men AMI laymen gather
ed together Tuesday evening at the
first annual banquet Of the Misha-
waka Chamber Of Progress at the
Mishawaka hotel. A banquet was
provided by Manager De Vault for
the evening. After the banquet was
enjoyed the principal speakers of the
evening gave brief talks.
Melvin W. Mix. president of the
Dodge Manufacturing Co, was the
principal speaker His address was
on Developing Home City"
Archie Graham Talks.
a. c. Graham. a prominent South
Bend attorney. was the second speaker
OF the evening and his talk was along
the lines Of Organization. lie gave
a brief history of the part Of Organi-
zatiOn in the memory Of the world
and it's growth since the dawn Of
civilization. lie said that Organiza-
ton has become the greatest word in
the English Language and that there
are two great ORGANIZATIONS, organl-
cations of capital and Of the people.
He urged that the Mishawaka Cham
Der OF Progress be made a reflective
organization and that they should put
capable men i'm official capacities who
Can W0Ih ana bIIuE results.
other Speakers OF the Evening.
Mayor Ralph w. GaylOr was the
next speaker to be called on by the
POSTMASTER and responded with few
points touched on by the previous
speakers. tie said that he believed
that "a step toward the amalgama-
ton of the Mishawaka Chamber Of
Progress and the Mishawaka Business
Mems association would be a move IN
the right direction and would increase
the efficiency or both organizations in
regard To lettering local conditions
IN Mishawaka in business and in every
other way. .,r u-
Mayor GaylOr was followed Dy
Franklin Hobbs, 4 Chicago business
man. but "a i'ishaWaka. resident. Mr..
Hobbs spoke for few minutes on the
financial conditions Of the country at
the present time. Tie said now was
the time for business men to buy and
10 borrow as banking conditions are
better at the present day TO secure
money on a small charge OF interest.
MIR. Hobbs also spoke on the high
cost OF living and said that no SUCH
condition existed. He said that IN
stead of an increase in living there IS
a decrease and gave an illustration py
which ne showed that with the same
amount OF money today a man could
purchase more by IS per cent than
ne could &C years ago, and IL per
cent more than IS years ago, but
stated that the American people to-
day are more eNtravagant today than
any other nation and consequently
more prosperous. He also touched
on the matter of idle labor and said
that thete were but little idle labor
in the country today although there
were thousands of the shiftless eie-
ment who do not work and who will
not work He illustrated this by say
ing that just recently a Chicago bust
ness concern wished TO hire 900 men
and that out OF hundreds OF many IN
terviewed but So were hired TO work
Other speakers of the evening who
were called on by the tOastmaster
were Dr. loren NJ. Edwards, .. T.
Lang. T. n Jeruegan. Ralph Jerne-
gan. STANDBY Mcintosh, Warren Jud-
kins and T.. NJ. Johnson. City Judge
Ralph Ffeg acted IN the capacity of
toastmaster for the evening. over
100 men were served at the banquet.