Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-04-14
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At HOTEL BELONG
on MONDAY NIGHT
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Some OF YOU wonder what the EN-
ployed help in an association of COM
merce can find TO do. Well, i'm the
Grand Rapids Office we have five men
and six girls employed all of the time.
We are busy from early morning until
late at night. We find the days too
short, the weeks too short, and too
few weeks in the year to accomplish
what we should accomplish. We are
working for the betterment OF our
city every minute. AS much depends
on keeping certain things out of a
city as in having certain other things
brought to our town. We are alert to
the good things and try To bar the un-
desirables. What we don't want i'm
Grand Rapids you should not want i'm
Belding.
Il want to ask four questions of you
and then answer them for you. In
this way / expect to prove my hypo-
thesis that a commercial organization
is great thing and make several
things clear to you. First what is a
commercial organization? Second
why have a commercial organization?
Third what constitutes the functions
of a successful organization And
fourth what can such an organization
do? Now, let me tell you that there
are al the present time over 1000
commercial organizations in the Unit
ed States. All of the big towns have
them. Many towns smaller than Beld.
ing have them. In fact do not know
of but few towns the size OF Belding
that do not have a commercial or
ganization. II is q town necessity and
not a town luxury. The prosperity of
a town is measured in direct ratio TO
the activities and success of its COM
mercial organization. II will benefit
/ your morals. and the morals of your
town depend on the character of the
citizens in the town. They will be
| just what the people want them to be.
/ 1T is the duty of commercial or
ganization to crystaliZe public opinion.
| The organization can keep out those
| institutions and individuals that tend
| to lower the standard of the town.
Many of the tramps and collectors for
charitable institutions that come 10
the small towns, with good success,
are people who have been kicked out
of Grand Rapids and the other large
cities where chambers Of commerce
exist, We do not allow these para
sites to gun the people out Of money
in our city. They cannot circulate
]
! tary Of our organization.
"A commercial organization acts as
check on a common council of a
! city. 1t gives them place to feel
of the pulse OF the community before
acting upon certain questions of in
terest to the community. Every coun-
ell does things that the business men
do not want done. Also things are
not done that the business men Of the
city want done and that would be a
benefit to the city.
Now ] want TO give you what |
consider the four essential things in
commercial organization. | will call
them the four MS Motive Men.
Money and Management. Now the
motive should be the making Of a
better and bigger Belding. Every
business and professional man should
be a member of the organization. The
activities Of the organization in any
city vary with the size and location
of that city. You people OF Bedding
| have a better natural location even
than the city of Grand Rapids had
when she began to grow. You should
| begin TO do something TO improve your
natural advantages and then advertise
! them to the world. Make the town
known.
Now some of the things you can
do right here in Bedding. You can
improve the roads leading into your
city. You can begin the paving OF
/ your streets, you can look TO the ad
vantageous lighting OF the streets. You
can make a market for the farmers of
the community. You want the farm
er trade. 1t is necessary TO the future
! success of your city. DO any
thing that will benefit your town as
place in which to live and you will
benefit yourself"
Following Mr.. Bierce's talk Chair
man j. II. Armstrong introduced Mr..
Upper who expressed himself as be-
ing in accord with all that Mr.. Bierce
had said. He then spoke OF some of
the ways that Bedding needed improv-