The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-03-11
CIarksburg Board of Trade in
an Article Written by the
Boards Secretary.
tBy G. w. nuddernr. secretary of the
IboarTI OF trade.


(bOarII Of trAde.)
Here are reasons why you should
become member Of the Clarkshurg
Board Of Trade:
BECAUSE you should become Il
member of the Clarksburg Board or
Trade.
BECAUSE you share the RESPONSE
bility OF Clarksburg's future.
BECAUSE you want Clarksburg to
become better and greater city.
BECAUSE the board OF trade Is
the one organization which Is pledged
TO work for the Improvement or
CGarksburg In every particular.
BECAUSE cooperation strong
pull together--is necessary If We are
to accomplish anything worth while.
BECAUSE the man who Is menu
Der of the board of trade is acknowl-
edged to be n loyal citizen-the
man who Is not member is known
as man who Is willing to accept
benefit without giving in return.
BECAUSE you want wour name on
membership lists published from
time to time and an attractive board
of trade emblem hanging in your of
fee.
BECAUSE every city is what It's
civic organization makes 1t and 1t Is
both your privilege and your duty to
give your moral and material sup-
port to your city's greatest public en-
terprise-the board OF trade.
BECAUSE through the board OF
trade you can benefit your neighbor
E1WNTI
BECAUSE with sufficient funds
and the enthusiastic support of a
loyal citizenship the board of trade
can and will accomplish much.
BECAUSE creeping into the lives
Of men everywhere, Is the thought
that cooperation Is better than CONF
petition. We ned each other.
BECAUSE, to successfully promote
and solve the problem of local de-
tvelopment. each of you must consider
1t as you do your individual busi-
ness. What would 1t profit manu-
facturer to erect a modern plant,
equip 1t with the best up-to-date ma
chlnery, and produce the best OF a
needed product, IL he stored 1t in his
warehouse and let 1t go at that?
This community has something to
sell; dwelling houses. vacant build
ing lots for moro houses, stores, ware
houses, factory sites for more new
plants, merchants and manufacturers
to be patronized and professional cit
liens to consult, a, destiny to deter
mine and heHueath TO our postertty.
The shelves OF our municipal ware
room are filed with the commodity
called local advantages.
In these modern days of civic COM
petition 1t is up to us to keep the han
die OF, the big front door Of that ware
house polished and the dust and cob
webs banished, and the world advised
of the quality, nature, and utility
OF the ''local advantages" by adver-
Using and exploiting them as we do
in our own private business affairs.
For what is true Of 1t, is equally IL
not In a greater degree true of our
community's interest. for without ac-
tive cooperation neither can thrive
land hence the campaign for local pro-
motion and development Is no longer
optional, but forces itself. by reason
OF its necessity, upon every thought
full and progressive man.
BECAUSE
LIE you want to live in the kind of a
town
| Like the kind of a town you like,
You needn't slip your clothes in a
grip
And start on a long. long hike
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really
new,
Tits knock at yourself when you
knock your town.
1T isn't the town-it's you.
BECAUSE
Real towns S,n.,s are not made by men
Lest somebody gets ahead,
When every one works and nobody
shirks
You can raise town from the
And if while you make your personal
Your neighbors can make one too,
Your town will be what you want to
It isa iSs The tovn-it.s you.