Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-03
MEMBERSHIP FOR
CHAMBERT 0PASS
OVER 1900 MARK
natal Goes to 947 Last Night With
Assurances OF Several Hun
bred More.
NETTING IS JOYOUS OCCASION
Team Captains and Workers Drink Of
the Happiness OF Success at
Final Session.

the Rock Island chamber of COM
~srce membership campaign proved 4 /
ssccess far beyond expectations.
rast night team committees reported a /
total Of SAT memberships. assuring an
Immediate increase beyond the goal Of /
ed0 fzed al the start Of the cam
gs.sn. and with practical certainty
mat the membership will go above the i
907 mark within the immediate fu- /
fare.
the dinner of the workers at the
Rock Island club last night was the
occasion for much rejoicing Is re
salt of the showing made by the teams. /
6rd when II was announced by Sec /
retar f. " Bender. after the commit
Tee captains had made reports that the
total Of 947 has been gained, c. A.
Hzlreren. who presided at the meeting.
called on various team captains and
workers for an expression Of the work
IF the campaign.
n II CIeageland spoke Of the pleas
antress which marked the campaign
II W Crawford pleaded to make the
rhaub her Of commerce work go A
! L5uGstram urged ali to continue
work for organization to make its fu-
ture The same success il had in the
campaign. f. B Nckowu said the
campaign showed the skepticaI that
Rock Island could put il over NJ II
Sexton urged that the organization
take the opportunity offered To iron
out past difficulties by putting to its
front some Of the new members, AMI
make them officers.
Professor r. L. Philbrook said the
chamber of commerce campaign
showed that such an organization is
the best thing Rock Island can have.
r T. Bennett urged that with such a.
suspicious start everybody stick fast
and make possible big things for the
city Allen Myers spoke Of the pleas
antness which had marked the cam
uaiEn and the general courteous man
ue- IN which the public accepted the
invitation to enlist in the forward
movement r. " Lamont brief]E
echoed everything which had been said
up until the time he was called upon
bv saving that he seconded every
thing which has been said
H. H. Mack referred to some of the
pleasant episodes of the campaign II
Griswold said that the city now has
it- plant erected. it has a superintend
emit and with the offering of the
chamber all that is necessary is to
have everybody working unitedIy to
keep the machinery running smoothly
s White. general OF the Blue di-
vision. spoke in poker terms when ne
was called upon. He pointed to the
blackboard showing the figures of the
campaign and said, Look at what my
stack Of Blues did
To DO E-eal Things.
H. T. Marion said. They said We
couldn't do it. knew we could. We
are going TO do real things in Rock Is
land from now on. Watch our smoke. IS
r. Davis spoke of the fact that the
campaign showed what could be done
and urged that the future be spent in
doing things rather than obviously
questioning as to what IS going TO be
done He referred 10 the happiness
The campaign gave him.
Secretary Bender asked by Mr.
J{allgren TO say a few words, mapped
out the program for the future. lie
said that by Friday cards would be
sent out 80 the members upon which
they are 70 specify which of four de
partments- civic, agricultural, retail
merchants or industrial-they wish 10
affiliate with When these cards are
returned they will be compiled Each
Of the departments will have meet
ing at which time directors will be
elected A vice president Of the entire
chamber Will he the executive officer
of each department.
This organization IN the future is
ID he in the hands Of YOU men, Mr.
Bender said You have been given
the acid test I'm this campaign and yoI
have made good. You men are going
t0 be responsible for this organization
and you are going TO make good. And
don't let anybody kid himself about
this organization. Men are going tc
ike each other here not for what they
talk about but the things that they &C
Compl1sh"
Mr. HaEgreu reviewed briefly the
plans OF his administration Of the
Rock Island club over the last L
months during which time the en-
deavor had been made TO secure al
executive or commercial secretary, Tie
spoke Of various men who had Ottere1
their services and said all had been re
1ected until Mi Bender had presented
himself Mr.. HalIgren declared that 6
FIVE minutes talk with Mr.. Bender had
convinced him that he was the man
for tHe place. He said that when he
then secured a number uf local cit
liens To undertake TO stand the ex
peuse OF th campaign IN the event
that il failed, ard that when thel
agreed TO this that Mr.. Bender was
employed,
we have a more representative
commercial organization in Rock IS
land tonight Mr. HalIgreu said, thar
either Davenport or Moline. or any
other city III this section Of the cOun
try. We made il a point TO get he in
dividual Other cities sold member
ships heavily 10 many single organi
cations while We strove 10 get all IN.
business and professional men ~
could The campaign was big sue
cess and as president Of the Rock IS