The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1915-02-26
UNITED EFFORT---A GREATER PAW PAW
MEMBER OF COMMERCIAL CLUB GIVES OPTIMISTIC VIEWS
OF FUTURE, AND MAKES VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS.

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Commercial Club are to get the people
together for the general good Of the
city, to see that we have good roads
that our streets are kept clean and tidy
and that our homes are kept up and
attractive; that our means of transpor.
talon are adequate and ample to ac-
commodate the business public; that
our people are we'll served by a good
postal service, telephone and telegraph
and banking privileges, and good
schools and churches. In fact to make
everything that goes to make up a
town for the best. Always have good
word for your town and for everybody
in it, or keep your mouth closed. If
you cannot say anything to help build
up your town and to aid your towns
men, then say nothing. Let's be a
live WIRE"
If we find that some people are
going out Of town for what they want
to purchase we must ask ourselves the
cause. While there are some people
who think distance lends enchantment
and think things from other towns are
better or more reasonable in price, yet
1t is more often the case that we are
not keeping pace with the march Of
time, and our competitors are giving
better goods and prices than we are,
and are studying to have just what the
purchaser wants. We must get busy
and be up-to-date. So 1t Is necessary
that we as an up-to-the-minute CONNER
cial Club foster and aid our home in
dustries; such as our -four mills, our
basket factory, our various trades, our
farms, our mechanics, in fact every in
dustry which we now have among us;
not only to help and encourage them in
their work, but to help them to grow
and become larger and more produc-
tive.
Again it is the object of the Com
mercial Club to go out after and bring
in other industries and especially new
ones other than those which we have
at present with us. And the greater the
variety we have the more stable will
our town become; for while one indus
try may languish and work on part
time the others will be moving along at
their accustomed pace.
The Commercial Club, and that
means every member, should be alert
and on the watch for every new indus
try that is looking for place to oper-
ate, send the proper agent to them, and
find out their requirements, their
standing, wealth and ability for sue
cess; then the Commercial Club should
see if it can meet the requirements. If
so, then 1t is its duty to get busy and
leave no stone unturned until 1t has
it's purpose. In order to
do all this we must put aside all petty
strifes and get together, no matter if
any one Of us may receive no benefit
from the enterprise directly. II / can
not receive some benefit indirectly,
then am not smart or even worthy to
be classed as a citizen Of the town.
How can these objects be accom-
plished? First, we must put our hands
into our pockets and pay the price,
and when we do, we will reap accord
ing as we give. We must have funds
to work with We want good and fire.
quent write-ups of the advantages and
we have to offer. We want
funds to place these written and Illus
trated articles where they will attract
the attention of those of whom we are
in search. We want funds that we may
be able to send a good live man to In
vestigate and IL the case is a meritor-
ious one, a man who will picture this
town as a town in which the party or
parties will want to locate, in fact, one
who is capable of making them think
that this is just the place they are
looking for. But before we can do this
we must become united and every man
of us stand shoulder to shoulder with
his neighbor, and do what Is asked or
him as far as he is able. We may not
be able to furnish ten thousand dol
lars, one thousand or even one hundred
but we must be ready and willing to do
what we can IL we want our good town
to grow and prosper.
When business men meet to improve
their cities and towns they put them
selves in the way of improvement and
the Boards often serve as educators to
the business men as well as improving
the business of their communities.
Communities are deemed attractive
and make friends for themselves
through the exercise Of the very same
characteristics that bring individual
popularity to the people comprising