Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-12-03
SECRETARY OF
COMMERCE BOARD
IN Open letter
j. c. Want HUI, ,Jr., Who Will Take
up Work December Is as Sec.
rotary Of Chamber Of Com
mercc, Outlines Work.
ASKS CORPORATIONS OF ALL
Object Of Organization to Make a
Bigger, Broader, Better Citi-
zenship.

President H. NJ. Sparboe of the
Webster City Chamber of Commerce
is in receipt of letter from J. C..
Want HUI, Jr., of Faribault, Mimi,
saying he will be in Webster City
about December Is to take up his
duties as secretary of this organiZa-
tion. Secretary Want HUI writes an
open letter to the people of Webster
City outlining his plan of work and
calling upon the people for their
heartiest cooperation. Mr.. Want Hui
is a real live wire. He has made a
fine record assistant secretary of
the St. Paul Chamber VI commerce
and as secretary at Faribault. He
met the members of the board OF
directors here two weeks ago and
impressed all as the most able man
of the many who applied for the
place here. He will move his fam
lily, consisting of his wife and two
children, here and will make Web
ster City his home. 1t is his desire
to at once become part and parcel
with the community and the Free
man-Journal bespeaks for him, and
his estimable family, hearty well
come to the city, both in business
and in social way.
HisA Letter.
Secretary Want Hulis open letter
to the people OF this city and COM
munity is as follows:
Having been honored with call
to come to Webster City and engage
with you in the work of up-buildins
this city and the surrounding terri
ltory,-the making of better com.
munity in which to live and do bust
ness-and appreciating the fact that
this work must succeed or fail ac-
.cording to the measure OF genuine
cooperative effort accorded 1t by the
people, ! take this early opportunity
of inviting not only the active per-
sonal support of all the members of
the Chamber of Commerce, but of the
citizens-at- Large.
This is our community. Here we
Live, do our business, bring up our
children, enjoy our opportunities
and carry our burdens. This is
home. All that life holds is centered
here. AS partners in the corporation
of Webster City, all are expected to
exercise their duty of helping tol
make it the best managed institu-
ton, and the best possible payer OF
dividends. You who live here, owe
a definite duty to your city in making
1t realize to you and to your children
all that is best in home life and in
community life.
Cooperation Asked.
This is a day of cooperative eff
fort. New conditions are facing us
all: the close of the world war will
require and is already bringing GER
tain re-adjustments in our National
life. To most effectively participate
in the great National REIMBURSEMENT,
it is necessary to first put our house
in order-to plan wisely and effec-
lively for the future. not merely as
each going his own way,
but as American citizens, and as
citizens of Webster City. This is no
small task; it requires and de-
mands, the best thought, the SINGER
est effort of every one. In this great
task you are invited to share.
| come to you as stranger, realiz-
ing that the wisest counsel of the
people of Webster City is necessary
10 me in order to successfully carry
)ut, through the medium of the
Chamber Of Commerce, which is the
Drum of the people, their hopes and
aspirations. l ask that you come to
t freely and often, giving the Cham
yer, through its agent, your sugges-
ions, your advice and counsel and
,our views as to what should be
lone to help make Webster City the
deal American community. The
Chamber has been organized along
he most modern and up-to-date
ines. 1t has all the facilities and i,
departments for utilizing the best
bought and effort of the citizens: y
IS secretary is merely the engineer;
he fuel, the enthusiasm, the support,
he desire to serve the community in
n impartial and helpful spirit, must
ONE from the residents Of this city
from you. ask for your help s
rant You to use the Chamber of
commerce freely, and if you do that, \
on will have the most effective
gency yet devised for pushing your
ity to the front.
r. L