Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-07-31

city have changed with them. Hence
the movement for new commercial
organization. The Commercial club
will continue to exist as place for
the entertainment of its members and
their guests. The Commercial Club
Building company will hold the build
ing in trust for the people of Albu-
querque. The Albuquerque Chamber
of Commerce will put Albuquerque on
the map. Its business will be the de-
veloping of the resources of Albu-
querque, the visualizing of the advan-
tages of our city and the focusing of
the whole to the end that Albuquer-
que may be a bigger and better place
to live in"
Address of T.. +. Trefz.
Edward F. Trefz delivered an ad-
dress which aroused extraordinary
enthusiasm. He said in part:
"Cities are built by men, not by re-
source. Brick, stone, mortar and steel
have no significance without hand
and brain. God did not fashion this
globe for the habitaton of the beasts
of the field. David Swing once said:
God must have loved this star for
out of its very dust he made man.
Iut DulittiS Vi u Guy are proven
by their handiwork. Given the char
acter and kind of men that compose
its citizenship, and it needs no pro-
phetic talent to forecast the future
of that city.
"Cities cannot grow efficiently
without plan or purpose. Like men,
cities must find themselves, discover
the purpose for which they are adapt
ed, and then train every energy to-
ward the accomplishment of that pur-
pose.
Generally speaking O real city
must be built along three lines. Be-
cause the city is the habitation OF
the human. it must observe the de-
velopment of the individual in its
progress.
How City Must BE Built.
"Man is a creature of the will, the
sensbilities and the intellect-the
hand, the heart, the head. Given a
man in whom these qualities are COM
pletely developed, and you have a
dominant personality. Develop his
intellect, energize his will and let his
sensbilities radiate so that his sym
pathy touches life at all points, and
he succeeds as his Creator would have
him succeed.
"A city must be built along the
same lines. First comes the hand
side---those resources which IL de-
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city's people in widest measure. 1t
may be Industrial, it may be agricul~
tural, it may be transportation. or all
three. These must be observed stud
led, supported.
"A city must have recreative facili-
tiles. A park is as essential as
church; a playground is as necessary
as o school.
Generations come and go, but the
cities flourish if posterity is trained
Alright. Our public schools are the
melting pot of civilization. They are
the incubation of genuine American
ism Guard well your resources for
development: your recreative facili-
ties. your schools.
Citizens Have Power.
Civilization has come because gen
erations of men have been will
ing to put more in the world than
they took out of it. You get out of
life what you put into it. The man
who asks of a chamber of commerce
only What do / get out of it?' is as
valuable to his community as a cipher
with the rim rubbed out. Given men
with talent for business construction
and leadership, united in the deter
mined purpose of doing for posterity
what generations of the past have
done for them, and you have the pros
perity and happiness of city assured.
"The citizens of Albuquerque, unit
ed. can make this community what
they will, If they will but pay the
price"