The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-07-21
Constitution Read by Committee ant
Approved; Directors Chosen;
Chamber of Commerce
Suggested

At supper in the basement OF
the Baptist church, Thursday even.
ing, July 13, at which more than SO
representative men Of Bingham
county were present, the boosters
club committee reported on plans for
organization and their proposal was
accepted by the meeting.
H. D.. MacCosham read the consti-
tuition as drafted and subject to
minor changes. The principal points
about it are that the dictatorship, by
a board of nine members, shall be
rotated so that at no time will the
members be all new to office. Three
members are to be elected at inter-
walls and after the initial election no
more than three will be elected at
one time. The dues are at the mini
mum figure Of merely the cost Of a
supper month thruout the year,
nine dollars, payable semi-annually.
In the absence Of his father, who
had been chosen chairman at the
close of the last supper, Howard Bic
than held the chair at this meeting.
After the committee report and its
adoption, George Stoll, general sec
1Otdly VI thC OLdJC S1duUCI
of Commerce, was called upon to
speak of his mission. He is travel
ing thru the state organizing COM
munity units of the state commercial
organization and it was known that
he came here to lay before the
business men his proposition. But
inasmuch as it happened the very
day of his visit that local organiza-
tion was almost consummated Mr..
Stoll felt rather at loss what to
propose; but he gave the general
scheme Of state cooperation some
what as follows:
In the first place, the old system
of state union of commercial clubs
was failure. OF so member units
five paid and ten kept up the corre-
spondence. Something had to be
done and the plan undertaken was
one already worked out in the middle
west states. Mr. Stoll said if he were
told that Blackfoot would come out
to booster meetings in the number
present once a month thruout the
year he could not believe it. EX-
perience had taught that it was prac-
tically impossible. OF four or five
hundred members in the Pocatello
club of the old style not enough
could be got out for meetings to
make a quorum of Is, so that the
quorum had to be reduced to ten. BY
the new plan the existence of a club
is guaranteed and the voting is not,
done by quorums, as before.
In every community where there
Sc mann how oI,,b oP tho OF organ
ization every tax payer has vote on
all important questions members and
non-members of the chamber of COM
merce. This is the referendum plan.
Some of the things the state cham
Der Of commerce has done already
are as follows: The exhibit at the
Panama-Pa exposition, where an
Idaho display was maintained with
great success; the quarantine on Ida
no alfalfa was taken up by the or
ganization and finally lifted; new
scheme now in progress is general
advertising publicity for the state.
The Chicago Herald has instituted
a novel publicity service, by which,
in this instance, Idaho is to have one
whole page of the paper for period
of 18 months, on which will be car
ried pictures and descriptions of
various parts of the state, showing
the development and room for ex-
pansion. A permanent exhibit of
products is kept up during the same
period and it may be changed or re-
plenished as the Idaho managers see
fit from time to time, so that all
seasons are represented. 5000 feet
of moving picture film will be taken
in different sections of the state, and
these pictures will be shown thru the
middle west for 18 months once a |
week, in 1000 cities. One Idaho
settlement agent is to be stationed !