Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-04-01
VALUE BOARD OF TRADE
WORK TO A CITY AND COUNTY.
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here?" No reply. 81 cay what are
YOU doing up there!" In healthy tones
from two young voices came the re-
pay Nothing. Mama-Why, what you
want?" "Well. stop it right this
minute and come down here" The
elatter of feet on the stairs was proof
OF prompt action.
Marion has been too quiet, perhaps,
for a while. and the call has been
made to stop It., n get in action
THAT'S the reason why you men are
mere tonight-to eat and talk. to
De followed by concerted action, Com
mun1ty Work. Now. Community Work
Is not a mere matter of sentiment, but
it is a matter of business. In fact, it is
Just about the biggest business a bus.
mess or professional man can engage
IN, II pays the biggest dividends for
the amount Of money and time invest
ed OF any work you can do. If the
community prosperG the individual
prosper. If your community is sani-
tary its people are healthy. If the
standard of community ideals is high,
1t means individual citizens of a high
type. In other words, this and every
n community is what the citizens
OF that community make it. If the
men of Marion want to obtain certain
improvements for the city, and unite
for that purpose and work together OH
some definite line of action agreed
upon, no n would need a pencil and
paper to figure out the result. 1t ism.
the name of an organization that does
the work, but the combined action of
the efforts of the individuals compos-
ing it that gets the results desired;
team work counts.
Now, il every man in Marion be-
longed to this organization which
stands for the upbuilding of Marion
by making it a better place to live in
from every viewpoint, putting into
it his whole heart and soul, not in a
perfunctory9 Or criticising manner,
you can readily see that Marion could
obtain for itself anything it might de
sire. 1t is the individual citizenship
that makes up a community, but only
in combination with the harmonious
blending with the Municipalities of
other such citizens OF the community,
which means hearty, harmonious CO.
operation. Board of Trade work or
applied community building, original
ed, / believe. on the Pacific Coast. and
but little more than fifteen years ago
there were not more than ten such
organizations. Now there are, per-
haps, $500 or 1000. 1t was the idea
of a booster organization, a .do-some-
thing, result-getting organization as
opposed to the old fashioned .resolut-
ing organization. The new organiza-
tons were not merely deliberative
assemblies. but were composed of bus
mess men who got together, talked
about things and went right out and
did them.
In this great change in the idea OF
organization work. there
was established the fact that cities
grew up around the raw material.
AS a matter of fact. cities are wholly
the result of mems genius and energy.
The raw material does not count, !
often wondered why the genius
does not grow and thrive where there
an abundance of raw material. but
are all, perhaps, acquainted with
the old story of the pot of gold at tho
end of the rainbow. The opportunity
ON the horizon of our hopes often
looms larger than the opportunity for
accomplishment which We kick aside
under foot
Grand Rapids and High Point make
furniture, yet neither OF them are
in the midst of great forests. Detroit
makes automobiles, but it Is far re-
moved from the raw material. Akron,
Ohio, is famous for it's great rubber
yet is located thousands of
miles from the rubber forests. Bat
tie Greek is said to be the health food
center of the country, but has no
monopoly on the sawdust and peanut
bulls of the country, nor yet is it the
center of the grain producing area Of
the country. East Aurora, New York,
was unknown until Ebert Hubbard
chose to tell the world he lived there.
Michigan City was q considerable
long before Chicago was ever
of. 1t had a far better harbor
than Chicago, and more natural ad-
vantages, yet it is but a way station
ON the road to Chicago. There were il
of live lumbermen and business
men. human magnets they we're, that
built Chicago. In fact they would
have built around them a city any
where they might have located.
-Ashegi1le, with its suburbs of about
people. in the midst of a n
of raw material, especially
lumber and mica. has an annual pay
roll of only about two million dollars;
It's growth and popularity as a tour
iSt resort is based on IT'S climate and
the summer tourist traffic
last summer totalling nearly 159,000.
II We should look for the greatest
OF gold in the world, we would
not 60 to where it is named, where
the raw material is located. but we
look for I'm the vaults of Wall
Street and in the Bank of England
where the genius Of men have coliec-
it.
The new idea of Board of Trade
work has brought out something new