The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1914-06-18

ht present number OF our merchants
and progressive citizens are anxious 20
organize Boosters Club" Some of
them want a secretary who is capable
of doing all the work and building up
town second TO Chicago all by him
self They want 10 hire n man and let
him work on n commission and make
u to his interest to get large sub.
scription list in order that he might
be able 20 draw large salary and do
great things that would call attention
to the greatness or n part thereof that
would cause the eastern capitalists TO
nit up and take notice and flood all
the incoming trains bringing with them
their families and all their relation.
This might be the right way 10 look at
the situation in Tucumcari but IL is
our opinion that n town is IA great deal
like base bal! team or foot ball team
or anything else in which organization
counts for anything. Imagine blse
ball team going out 10 battle with
team which has played together for a
long time one who has practiced AMI
found the weakness of each of tho
members and by practice has overcome
most Of them. Now perhaps our op.
posing team has hired n player from the
best team in the N0ti,nal League and
with this great player we expect TO
win the game, but, alas! when the score
is counted we usually find that we have
failed and our one-man team in worse
than the odd team with men who have
played together for season. This is
practically the same in football. We
have seen a team out.weighed twenty
pounds to the man win game Just be-
cause of team work or in the united
efforts OF every man on the team. A
commercial club that expects to elect
n secretary who will do everything and
can do everything will suffer disap.
pointment and the town will pay dear
for his services What we need is the
united effort Of our citizens and n man
who we know Is capable and man who
will not say and do things that will he
hard for us TO recall. II we get big
booster from out Of town he will only
work as long as the salary is f5r.hcom.
ing and when he leaves TO work for an.
other town our city will get several
ha rH Ia NJ
sional booster reminds us Of n profes-
sional mourner. When the funeral is
over the mourner asks his friends how
his performance was received and IL
ne acted his part out all right and then
they laugh at what fools some people
are. The same can be said of pro.
the future Of Tucumcari how can we
expect those who have never known of
our good climate, good schools, churches
citizens, stores, and many other good
things which they have not scent
The people of the east have queer
ideas about New Mexico You canno;
imagine hcw wild they think we ARE,
and unless we can tell them the truth
and get more of them here, not by n !.
vertising something we cannot live q,
TO but by truly explaining how others
have come here, rcgaincd their health
and now enjoy life as they never had
before. Tell them of the possibilities
for man to grow up with n country
that is bound to some day be one cf
the best agricultural districts in the
State Of New Mexico. Irrigation is
hound 10 come. \ rain that is slow in
coming up is usually staycr when il
does arrive 50 il is with the irrigation.
For some time IL seemed like il would
never come and was impossible hut to-
day the prospects seem brighter and il
is now said to be in shape to put on the
market, II we could only 90 ahead and
finance the project and then advertise
it we could derive great profits for the
money it would take to put the irriga.
ton in working order but we have not
the money so it will he necessary To
put il up at Il bargain to induce east.
ern capital to take hold Of the project
and push same to completion.
We coald fll whole newspaper with
reasons why Tucumcari should have n
live commercial club with everybody
ready TO boost and help all they can to
better our city and county and not ex.
pect one little insignificant man to get
under the whole load and put It where
II rightfully belongs.
p A revival meeting where one waits