Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1916-05-20
Estate BOARD TO
Be POTENT FACTOR
Organization Will Be the Hub Of
Things Industrial and CONNER
cial.

The West Virginia state board Of
| trade is to inauguratc statewide
membership campaign. The prclimi
nary plans for this are being workc {.
out and soon the movement Will be
! launched and pushed to conclusion.
! AS soon as the campaign for mem
| bers is completed steps will be taken
for reorganization OF the body That
Is TO say the scope Of the board Of
trade VIII be brOadened SO that it may
become Il much more potent influence
! Ia shaping the commercial and indus
trial activities in West Virginia than
II has ever been in the past.
The plan is to make the West Vir-
ginia state board Of trade the hub Of
ali the industrial and commercial or
carnations in the state. All Of the
coal organizations. the gas associa-
tons, all Of the city boards of trade.
the chamber Of commerce, the bust
ness mems associations, medical So
cietles, dental societies, hardware as
sOciatiOns wholesale merchants asso-
Citations, retail dealers associations
according to the new scheme, are TO
work by and through the state board
OF trade for the accom- plishment of the
ends they seek in the way of legisla.
ton or in other matters that pertain
TO their welfare and the betterment
Of West Virginia along lines that tend
to the development of the state.
The scheme is to make the state
board Of trade an organization of
weight so that when it gives an cx-
preston on any matter or when
demand is made or a protest offered
that its influence will be felt and the
weight behind the organization be
realized as d power to be reckOned
with wherever and whenever the or
ganization takes the stand for or
against any certain proposition.
Secretary II. n. Archer, Of Park
ersburg, is now making a canvass of
the state getting leaders interested
| IN the membership campaign to be
waged within few weeks. Business
| men are taking to the proposition.
| Let Us hope that the German
Elcdge means also that 20 more ships
will be fired or dynamited in Amer
lean harbors.-Ncw York World.
William Lorimer has more troubles
| than almost any other innocent man
in the country. indianapolis News
! Uncle Sam is taking up the ques
| ton or necdful relaxation as a factor
| in efficiency" says the Washington
Star. The government clerks who
have month holiday and a month
sick leave every year might be used
as demonstrations they were jus,
a little bit more efficient than other
clerks.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
General Pershing is to be equipped
with a searchlight that has a range
OF ten miles, but it will have to have
greater searching power than that il
it is to throw light on the conditions
in Mexico which render Villa I'M
catchable.-New York Evening Sun.
If Germany had greater navy
than England it would not be in ia
vor Of 1.-The freedom OF the sea-
| Rochester Herald.
Bill Sulzer and Gene Foss have
dropped off and Terry's hands are
slipping.-Florida Times Union.
Mr.. Brandeis is almost as terrifying
to the senate as a national prohibit
| ton Observation-Disclosures City Star
| Maxilimian Harden's continued
strong defense Of Wilson in his Der
lin paper is significant, perhaps, if it
IS regarded as an appendix to the
German note.-Springfield Republi
can.