Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-06-15
BIG CAMPAIGN
FOR A BETTER
!. BISMARCK IS ON
Everybody Is Invited to Attend
the Mass Meeting at Auditori-
um Tonight.
LISTEN FOR WHISTLES
BLOWING TOMORROW
Irving Is Here to Direct the Big
ger, Better Bismarck
Campaign.

A live campaign is on to make
bigger and better Bismarck. Yes
terday morning a directors meeting
was held at the Commercial club at
which 1t was decided that 900 mem.
berships would be secured this week
at $l2 member. The campaign is
ON to raise these memberships. Last
night a splendid smoker was held.
This noon there will be buffet lun-
cheon at the Commercial club to
which all boosters are invited and
urged to come. The spirit Of the
great soul-stirring, and, if necessary,
mountaineering, campaign is in the
air. This evening there will be
mammoth mass meeting at the audi
torium TO which all boosters, men
and women alike, are cordially in
vited to come out.
Listen for Whistles.
1t is tho purpose of this movement
to make Bismarck an efficiency town,
to organize and standardize all its
community activities. An associated
charities, needs to be organized, the
manifestation of the booster spirit
needs to be co-ordinated and made
effective by control, there should be
band under proper direction and
with assurance of permanencc, and
the Commercial club should be assur-
ed of maintenance. fGs
These are some OF the things which
this week S activity should lead to. 1t
is planned to make the campaign u
very democratic affair. A list of 1000
who ought to be members has been
compiled and lists of men have been
made out, whose business it is to go
out this week and secure at least 900
of these. There will, However, be no
solicitation of memberships, or of
money, at any OF the public meetings.
This work will all be done by the
canyassers elsewhere. Wednesday is
the busy day for these hustlers. On
that day every time ten new members
are secured, the whistle will blow
and the people are urged to listen for
the whistles
There are 22S commercial travel
lers living in Bismarck and they will
be given an opportunity to boost their
town. Bismarck road men are invit-
ed to get in line and to take out men,
berships.
100 Opportunities.
At the mass meeting this evening,
Mr.. w. l.. Miller has been secured to
sing. and Mr.. George B. Irving, COM
munity efficiency expert, will speak
on 100 opportunities for making a
bigger and better Bismarck. 1t is
known fact that where the boosting
Of a town is standardized, it's etiicien-
cy is increased some 40 percent.
Everybody Is urged, therefore, to give
vent to his boosting spirit today by
attending the booster mass meeting
tonight. The help of everybody is
needed and the help of everybody is
desired, and solicited, that all pulling
together may make Bismarck the
finest city 10 live i'll on the map.
... Emphatic Endorsements.
The Commercial club wishes to be
a democratic body and is working for
that end, and hopes to become Bis
marck's big brother and to do work
of a big brother for the town. The
team of the men on the lists to secure
the memberships this week is going
to be Of the highest character. IL
will spell efficiency and they will be
after anybody and everybody who
ought to be within the fold Of the
Commercial club Progressive farm.
ers are to be given an opportunity to
enroll. Mr.. Henry Hollst is on tho
firing line and the finest brains in Bis
marck have been enlisted in this
work. -
The following are endorsements
from Bismarcks leading citizens for
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