The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1916-03-16
STATE BOOSTERS
START CAMPAIGN
STATE NEWSPAPERS TO ISSUE
BOOSTER EDITIONS LAST
WEEK OF APRIL
COOPERATION IS PLEA OF SPEAKERS
County Road Plan Made One of the
Important Parts of improvement
Program Of State

The state builders convention which
adjourned Wednesday of last week
after a two day session at Huron is
believed by many to be the starter of
the greatest era of development ever
had in South Dakota. a.
The plea of the prominent men who
spoke at the convention was for CO.
operation and concerted action in the
development of the abundant and lat
ent of the state. A truth
telling advertising campaign to attract
immigrants to the state was stressed
vigorously in speeches and in the reso-
lutions passed.
The convention was, doubtless,
made up of the greatest diversity of
occupations and ideas ever assembled
in the state for a program of construc-
tive building and boosting. Bankers,
business men, newspaper men, farm
ers and representatives of the state
government entered freely into the
work Of the meeting and their enthus-
iasm, knowledge and ideas received
consideration on every hand.
This assembly of representative bus
mess men resolved itself into the
State Development league which is
designed to put through a definite plan
of state building. A committee of a
number of the leading men of the
state was appointed to complete the
organization. The general opinion
prevailed that the convention should
be made an annual affair.
The resolutions which were passed
at the meeting may be considered a
working plan by which the various
ideas expressed in the numerous
speeches may be put into actual prac-
tice. The following named men drew
up the resolutions: j. w. Parmley, of
Ipswich, president of the Yellowstone
Trail association, chairman; H. +.
Dawes, of Mitchell, president of the
Corn Growers associations; G. A. Rus
sell, of Aberdeen, president of the
Aberdeen Commercial Club; M. E.
Smith of Sioux Falls, representing the
State Bankers association; N. p.
Bromley of Redfield, of the Bar asso-
citation; Jacob Tschetter of Bridge
water, a representative of the Real
Estate Dealers association; Professor
c.. Larsen, of Brookings, of the State
Dairymen's association; w. S. Hill, of
Mitchell, president of the state board
of agriculture; G.. H. Carroll, of Mil
Ter, and Alfred Zoske of Draper.
The Resolutions
The resolutions reported by the com-
mittee without the amendments were
adopted as follows:
Whereas the various organizations
of South Dakota united in a common
call for a general meeting, the purpose
of which was to confer in regard to
the problems of development, and such
call resulting in a great gathering of
allied interests with the one object
in view of building a still greater
state; we, the members of such assem-
bly, unite in organizing a permanent
State Development league and as a
code of principles worthy of the con
sideration of the people of the state
and an end toward which We strive,
we p~romulgate the following declara-
ton of principles:
1--WE believe that the land of South
Dakota is not surpassed in actual
value by the lands of any other state
and hat present prices offer greater
opportunities to the investor and home
seeker than can be found elsewhere,
we therefore look with disfavor on
land agents encouraging South Da-
kotans to look elsewhere for homes.
1--WE believe that greater co-opera-
ton should exist between city and
county to the end that all may be
benefited. We believe that the bust
ness of merchant and banker should
be so managed that consumers will
find it advantageous to patronize them
rather than mail order houses or,
~financiers without the state.
Cooperation
1--WE endorse the work of all CO.
operative farmer organizations in their
efforts to improve conditions relative
to the sale and distribution of farm
products by cooperation Of producers.