Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-02-07

nowadays the crook solicitor does not
purchase StopoVer ticket to CleVe-
iand on his way from Buffalo to De-
troit. And that $4,000 O. year has
peen saved to the city, and as l said,
is nearly twice as much as it takes
to maintain the Chamber of Com
merce for year.
Helps City Problems
"A practical Chamber of Commerce
VIII pay dividends on the investments
that are made in it, but it's greatest
usel lulness will be in the intelligent
study and opinion it will render on
the great city problems of the day.
me problem of taxation, municipal
ownership, the initiative, and refer
ehdum and power of recall, the great
ana growing impulse in this coun-
Try towards socialism these are the
problems of the future for the prac-
tlcal Chamber of Commerce.
III seems. clear to me and | am
sure 1t is clear to you that at pres
ent tlme 1t Is the duty of the men
~ inhuence and of means to set SER
rlously to work to study the signs
or the times, not to bury our heads,
ostrich like, in the sand, and refuse
10 ADMIT that there are such problems:
put TO try to bring about a happier.
healtnler, safer understanding of the
mutual dependence of capital and la
Dor and the essential democracy of our
people; to urge higher standards in
pupilc office; to give more and more
WllIngly of time and money in the
broad field of charity.
Busy Men Most Active
Il believe it will be found. as we
nave found in Cleveland, that the men
VINO are most willing to help in the
work or a practical organization to
promote civic pride are the honest
meh'-the men of large affairs, the
men who are doing things the men
VINO have the energy to conceive large
enterprises and the application and
industry to put them through.
Ihat.is the sort of men who make
up the working organizations all over
the country. The dreamers and the
takers are too much engrossed in
their dreaming and their talking to
really do the work of the world. Mr..
klplng has expressed this fundamen-
tal dlnerence between the dreamers
and the 'doers' in a recent poem.
"Jubal sang of the wrath of God
And the curse of this the thorn
But Tubal got him a pointed rod.
Ana Scrabbled the earth for corn,
Jubal sang of the new-found sea.
Ana the souls its waves divide
But Tubal followed a fallen tree
And passed to the farther side.
Jubal sang of the golden years
When wars and wounds shall
But Tubal fashioned the hand-fiung
spears
And showed his neighbors peace.
Jubal sang of the cliffs that bar
And the peaks that none may
crown
But Tubal clambered by jut and scar
And there he builded a town"
In conclusion Mr.. Munson called at
tent1on to obstacles which must be
overcome if the new Chamber of Com
merce Is to be successful.
The improper selection of commit
teemen, too many standing commit
tees, the peril of getting into rut.
necessity of frequently changing Off
GERS, domination by special interests.
partisanship, assuming but not full
filling responsibilities, regarding the
organization as the end and not the
beginning.
There Is no rewards in this SER
vice." said he. I'm the end it is a
eiiahhiOSo Jop hHQyOu are soon fOr-
gotten. Two or three years hence
when you have done something we'll
worth while somebody will say: 'Oh.
yes, / believe he did have something
to do with that | wonder what his
motive was.''
AT Speakers Table
At the speakers table were the fol-
lowing representatives from outside
Chambers of Commerce, and members
of the Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce:
The Rev. G. M. Diffenderfer. direc-
tor Carlisle Board of Trade: q. Fl
Wanless, secretary, Lancaster Cham
ber of Commerce; George H. Mosser
secretary, Altoona Chamber of Com.
merce; Eugene F. Weiser, secretary.
York Chamber of Commerce; w. s,
Millener. secretary, Williamsnort
Boar dof Trade; w. c. Westfall. presi-
dent, Altoona Chamber of Conlmerce.
George B. Tripp, president, Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce; Munson Ha.
vens, secretary, Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce.; Sherrard Ewing. score
tary, Reading Chamber of Commerce.
Jas. w. Eckels, president Carlisle
Board of Trade; C. F. Anderson, treas-
urer, Altoona Chamber of Commerce..
oliver Rothert, chairman Ways and
Means committee. Altoona Chamber
Of Commerce; Marcus A. Beeman. Sec