The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1917-02-08
(By l. J. Moe, Secretary

(By I. J. Moe, Secretary
A live commercial club advertises
by its very existence any city with a
future worth while.
Persons, companies and corporations
seeking locations today, seek their in
formation through the local CONNER
cial club, and those helpful to com.
munity are lost when they find the
city has not healthful commercial
association.
The city without vigorous CONNER
cial club is like a man without sufti'
.cient vitality to do things.
I The spirit of concerted fight for
the advancement of our social and
commercial life should be to overcome
the mob spirit of commercial effort
and develop a scientific method OF pull
ing together. In other words, we need
team work. We need to work for the
elimination of creeds, partizaship and
factions, and factions, and work all for
the one goal, "a greater and better
Valley City,"
Great economics wars will surely
follow the ending of the European war
and it behooves our community to
fortify against local friction.
The coming cities will be those with
energetic commercial clubs. The city
not having the energy and gumption
to work through commercial club for
the betterment of their community
conditions, will soon be overshadowed
by the city with the vigorous CONNER
cial organization.
We should make boosting our city
our hobby. We should ride it and
believe it will have a fascination and
the wonders of the results of your
boosting hobby will never cease. You
owe this to yourself, to your neighbor,
to your city. Be alive yourself and
soon the entire club will be alive.
Don't slow up; do something. You
local merchant, get busy and work
with your commercial club. Do you
realize you have the best of the mail
order house? You can work with the
local commercial club, but they can
not. BY your absence or neglect Of
the local work you place yourself in
the mail order house" class, and you
have no ground to ask for home pat
ronage when you offer nothing in COM
munity construction yourself Help
Vail IAC gun anu yOu We
won half of the battle against the mail
order house.
BY a pull together can we not hit a
pace worth while and make a city with
an individuality that will appeal to
the man of means as we'll as him who
seeks social advantages. Our banks
are bullying with money, can we not
develop conditions such that will call
for the depositor to invest his savings
In our community?
Manufacturers of all kinds are look
ing toward the west for locations with
view to get away from the hidebound
financial and industrial conditions In
eastern manufacturing centers. Let
the outside world know we are a real
live center and investors and manu-.
facturers will at least look us over.
The made in America" movement is
gaining and bulletins are issued each
day showing industrial prospects seek.
ing locations. Shall we take on the
business armor and fight for place and
power in the business world?
The farmers are organizing for their
er their protection. The Equity organ
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effort can do. Shall we fall by the
wayside? The work of the CONNER,
cial club should even be greater. 1t
should not only organize for the pro,
lection and advancement of our bust.
ness establishments and city welfare,
but We should establish community
fellowship and work for better feel.
ing between the people of the cities
and of the rural communities. We
need the good will and confidence OF
our country neighbor and through the
effort of our commercial organization
we should seek to prove to them that
our interests should be Identical. Our
commercial organization should cult
vate the farmer and the laboring man
as they are fast becoming potential
factors in community development.
believe we should aim to get the
farmer and the laboring man to asso
ciate with our organization and work
for larger and better community al
large.
If the business man, the farmer and
the laboring man would pull together
there is no limit to the possibility Of
our development.
Nc cid OI COMMUNITY cO-OperatlOI
Is fast approaching. Let us take time
by t2c 1orelock end p;";'ar', to meet
= the conditions and profit by the exper
fence of others.
The men of big business are realiz
ing that the work of the commercial
. club is part of their business and
through such organizations they work
for the betterment of conditions fol
themselves as we'll as for their com
lnunity.
We want the business man. the busy
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