Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-03-09
OUR DUTY TO THE
COMMERCIAL CLUB
INTERESTING PAPER READ BY
7. F. ADAMS At THE BAN
QUIET LAST WEEK.

The duty of every man in hi
community to the Commercial Clul
is and should be the full extent o
his interest in and to his busines
and property holdings located there
in-for the community will always re
! fleet itself commercially through it
Commercial Club, and let that Clul
be slow to it's awaking and its posi-
bilities, and the community will suf
fer to just that extent Give tow
a live-awake and progressive Com
mercial Club and you will see that
town progress commercially. On the
other hand, let US have no Club, ol
given an inactive one, and you vii
Immediately see that community
deteriorate from a business stand
point. We are speaking of the pres
ent day and age, and these are facts
well proven, for no business interest
can remain stationary-we must
either go ahead or drop backward.
In supporting our Commercial Club
We should all take am active interest
in its general welfare, and not sit
idly by and expect the other fel-
low to do all the necessary work
and detail, and then criticise the
Club or some particular active men,
Der thereof for something it may or
may not have done that does not
meet with our entire approval, for
had you supported your Club as you
should have done, possibly your
weighty counsel might have averted
this terrible result. Let us take an
earnest interest in our Club, and as
sist in our small way to get the
best results possible through it, or
failing to do this, and failing to
lend it either our moral or financial
support, then let us be man enough
to forever hold our peace. Help your
community to build up, but for
Gods sake do not tear it down just
because you may not always be able
to dictate and dominate every ques-
ton that may arise We are not liv-
ing in the age of every man for one
man and that man for himself, and
We should expect the other fellow to
have his personal views as well as
ourselves, and allowing such to be
the case, his views are entitled to
our respect and consideration. Did it
ever occur to you that possibly the
other man engaged in a successful
business might not be crazy after
all? Well, then probably he may see
matters from different angle than
you do, and in the final solution his
may be worthy of careful
consideration. No man should expect
to delegate to himself the sole right
to solve all problems concerning all
the people just according to his own
IDEAS, and then because he cannot
carry out entirely his personal wish
es in the matter, to withdraw and
refuse thereafter to take an active
interest in the local affairs of his
Usually such one is
the greatest knocker of his Club
and a knocker of your Commercial
Club is a business parasite on the
business progress and welfare of
your entire community.
Let us get together and work for
he betterment of our community,
and thereby our personal gain, for
when any community is benefited by
/ measure. we all thereby gain and
benefit to the extent of our property
and business interests. Some of us
nay represent larger interests than
others, but there is no useful men,
Der of our community but what will
gain in his rightful proportion any
benefit accruing to such community.
Don't knock the other fellow, not that
you will injure him, but by so doing
he chances are that you will do
7ourself more harm eventually than
you will harm him. Hide your ham,
ner, and try to speak well of your
leighbor. Nobody likes a knocSer'
out everybody loves a booster. Every
,ne likes sunshine, and few like dark
less and gloom.
Let us look on the bright side,
Ind work on the bright side, and fol-
owing these things, let us fuiflil
,ur duties as citizens of the COM
nunity in which we live, and at all
lines in the future let US here re-
,olva IN sunnort that which is good !