Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1914-06-26

loyalty which cannot but be val
liable.
There will be a gradual quick
cning of the interests of each
member in the public welfare
and a greater desire on his part
to cooperate with others in civic
development.
do not expect to perform
great missions in a day, and be-
cause some of your expectations
seem slow of realizations do not
become discouraged.
Your Board of Trade will not
please all. No Board of Trade
or like organization ever has.
There will come times when you
will be prone to criticise the way
in which your organization is
conducted or you will be disposed
to lose interest by reason of the
failure of some pet scheme to
materialize. When such an oc-
casion arises make your COM
plant to the officers of the or
ganization and go bury that ham,
mer. There is no surer way of
destroying the influence of a
civic organization than by the
disposition on the part of some
of its members to criticise its
acts to outsiders. Should any
member feel at times that the
proper enthusiasm is not being
in the organization or
that the organization is failing
to reach the mark aimed at let
him examine himself witha view
of determining whether he is
not to some extent to blame for
such conditions as he finds to be
existent. If all do your part no
one of you will be able to put in
to this organization as much as
he will receive from it.
AS a mans business is the
test and truest expression of the
man so will the Board of Trade
of Roanoke Rapids be the clear
est index of the business life of
this community. AS the social
life of a man is determined many
times by the cleanness of his
business life so also will the So
cial life of your community be
measured by the ideals and pur-
poses of this organization.
I'VE all wish success. We
strive for it throughout our busi-
ness life. 1t is a goal for our
ambitions. | mean real success,
not bank accounts. Many of US
don't realize what is real sue
cess. The basic elements of
are acquaintance and
Let us learn success
through forgetting ourselves in
the service of others. Use the
power for service not only by do
ing what is before you or what
you have bargained to do, but go
even further than that and aid
the other fellow. 1t is this aux
iliary power of service which
makes the competent man, the
full man. No man living, be his
state what it may, is exempt
ed from the duty of enquiring as
to what good he can do others.
A competent man calfnot be held
down, nor an incompetent one
held up. 1t is a mistaken idea
that fortune deals about her fa-
vors blindIy and with reckless
hand. Industry and ambition
are seldom exerted in vain. The
rewards of service, while they
may at times seem slow in COM
ing, are none the less sure OF
attainment.
you have here a thriving COM
munity, which is destined to be-
come much better known
through the influence of this
Board of Trade than it is now.
Let every member of this organ
ization be a booster for the
Board of Trade, for his fellow
members and for his town. II
you will pull together with a long
pull and a strong pull you car
get anything for Roanoke Rapids
YOU want her to have. Study
her surroundings, her resources
and her needs. Don't do this
once and then stop, but study al
the while and make every fel
low who does not do so ashamed
Of himself. You have reason t