The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-03
Chamber Of Commerce Sends
Workers Into Field
This Week.
WANT FULL BACKING
FOR 1918 CAMPAIGN
Important Program Planned
for Coming Year, Says
Chairman.


with which George Weisei and his
campaign committees viii begin a
membership drive for the chamber of
commerce today.
The chairman and his 40 field work
ers win descend upon business houses
and citizens generally with a com
pactly summarized statement of what
the Missoula Chamber OF Commerce
has accomplished during 1917 and q
tentative program for 1918.
There YOU are" they will say.
you've had results this year, will YOU
help us get bigger results next year."
Many Should be Members.
"There are 241 business and profess
! sional men in Missoula who are not
| members of the chamber of conn
merce," said Chairman Weisel yestcr-
day in announcing plans for the mem
| bership drive. THAT total does not
| include the many men and women of
other classes who ought to show their
interest in the city by joining the or
ganiZation which is doing its best to
| make the city bigger and better.
we are going after them 'all-with
| facts
Facts Stated in Booklet.
The facts will be stated in a little
booklet which every prospective mem
ber will be asked to read. A con-
| densatoin of the booklet (Which is in
itself condensed) will be found in ar
adjoining column.
Those fact sought to prove thai
membership in the chamber of com
merce is not a charity, not bit OF
wasted patriotism, but a sensible in.
vestment," said Mr.. Weisel.
The summary shows that during tn.
past year the Missoula Chamber o
Commerce has been called upon to d,
much this year, not only by the cit!
and western Montana but also by tn,
, nation. And the call has not been IL
vain. The government has been aidet
, in campaigns for food conservation
agricultural extension, Liberty loans
Red Cross and Y. NJ. G. A.. to sa.
f nothing of the vastly more importan
+ development of patriotic sentiment.
/ |
Want Every Missoulian.
These things have been accom-
plished despite the fact that PAL me
with business Investments here al
not members of. the chamber of com
merce." said Secretary Richards. "B,l
we want those men. With them we ca
s do still more.
|
You see, we feeling that it is tim
now for Mssoula men to do somethin
O for the chamber of commerce, in re
r. turn for what the chamber of con
: merce has done. There will be II
!. brass band effects in this campaign
J. it will be a quiet, neighborly, bus
70 ness like affair. We expect resul
is because we are sure that every ma
,c with money invested here has the i,
J. terests Of the city at heart"
Is Will Ask People to Join.
. The campaigners will go about the
work quietly, simply asking the IN,
and women approached to join Il
chamber of commerce for the sake
Missoula and western Montana.
RI In this connection no brief need
written for the organization" said
Richards yesterday. practically eve
he citizen admits the necessity of SUI
~ on organization as this. 1t is sc
to eral clearing house for community /,
fairs, and it's value is proved daily
he Seek Cities, Too.
Mr. Richards said that the office
no of the chamber of commerce knt
that there are persons in the city W
do not subscribe to the 1917 policy
the organization.
These people will be asked to jc
so that they may make their inf
[o ence felt" he said. I'VE want
policy of this chamber to be the po
-, cy in which a majority of the citizo
agree. The present officers adr
., that they are not infallible, and th
" point to the fact that a general eli
ton of officers will be held Dece
y. ber Il. giving new members a char
nv to express themselves with ballots
Let me add that every man a
woman in Missoula is invited into t
organization. My telephone number
81. and | will take a membership bla
u- to any person who is overlooked
be the campaign committees"
nal The drive will begin tomorrow mo
ty, ing. Chairman Weisel will annou