Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-02-12
FETTY JEALOUSES or BUSINESS
MEN HAVE BEEN WIPED OUT.
Indlscrimnate solicitation Among BUS
mess Men VIM De Discouraged
BY City Club.


E. w. Ewbank at last Friday nights
meeting of tho Greater Hendersonville
club, "a sincere desire for effective CO.
operation has been created and q bet
ter mutual understanding now exists
as a result of this Organizations ac-
t1vities during the past twelve
months.
Mr.. Ewbank's remarks were inspired
by an unfortunate misunderstanding
resulting from distributing printed
cards at the recent corn show. On
one side of these cards appeared the
statement that one bank and two indi-
viduals had contributed the funds for
the refreshments at the show. As a
matter of fact all three banks of the
city and several public spirited BUSH
ness men contributed tt the fund. 1t
was an honest mistake on the secre-
tary's part In having the cards read
The way they did and no one regrets
this mistake more than he. The prime
motive for distributing the cards was
30 advertise the club amongst its far
mer friends. Mentioning the contribu-
tors was a secondary consideration.
While it was a mistake, an ~unfortun-
ate and needless mistake, still it will
wcrk out for the ultimate good of the
Greater Hendersonville club. For It
will certainly insure greater careful
ness in the future and thereby avoid
other and possibly nor serious blum
der.
1t has been the desire of the Secre-
tary to eleminate the indiscriminate
solicitation of funds which has been
tho custom here in the past. 1t is the
secl etary's understanding of a resolu-
ton adopted by the club that when a
member has paid his membership fee
he shall be called on for no other con-
tribution during that year. unless SOM
extraordinary circumstances and con-
ditions justify another appeal to his
public spirit and his pocket book.
From the best information obtaina-
BILE this method has proved successful
IN other cities which are fortunate In
having well organized and effective
commercial organizations, and there is
no a why it should not prove ee-
fective here.
The secretary believes Il is possible
to collect $4,000 annually here for the
clubs needs. This sum to be spent on
the secretary's salary, the county's
assessment of $1,000 to the Greater
Western North Carolina association,
the clubs part of the farm demonstra-
tors salary, for advertising, securing
conventions and the hundred and one
incidents that are continually coming
up. If this sum is collected, ju~dicious-
ly expended and accounted for the Sec
rotary KNOWS there will lbe no great
difficulty in securing additional funds
to meet extraordinary conditions.
But the foundation of this whole fl
nancial scheme must be to eliminate
solicitation of funds outside the regu-
lar membership dues. The secretary
finds that this proposition makes an in.
slant appeal to the business men of the
city and belieyes that 3nIy on this
basis can the clubs membership be
built up to produce an annual income
of $4,000.
Mr.. Ewbank was eyerlastingly right
when he said the club had been instru-
mental in wiping out petty jealousies
and inspiring a desire for cooperation
among the business men of this city.
Mr.. Ewbank is a real estate man and
possibly the way all the real estate
operators of Hen%dersonville co-opera-
ted to secure the st. Petersburg colony
is still fresh in his mind. That is but
enc instance. There arc many others
tending to show a better understanding
among the city's business and profess
sional men, an inclination towards mu-
tual f~orbearance and a sincere desire
to pull together for the future of the
one best city in the Southland that's
Hendersonville.-T. R. Barrows, secre-
tary Greater Hendersonville Club.
EA