The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1918-12-13
What Every Town Needs.
All Of US frequently hear this e

/ pIcSSlOn.
What this town needs is few
first-class funerals"
| If a town needed funerals, then
the list should include those who
give vent to this expression; for those
who make use of it are intellectually
inactive enough to require some
formal disposition.
| What every town needs instead OF
| funerals is organization.
In every town there are organiza-
| tions such as boards of trade, cham
bers of commerce, chambers OF In
dustry, commercial clubs. manufac-
turers' associations, merchants as
sociations, credit mems associations.
and so on.
What all these separate organlza-
lions should do is to unite.
Each could unite in q common or
ganization and still be effective in
performing its individual function.
These organizations should get to-
gether and have a big funeral OF all
their old feuds rather than the
funeral of one or more, individuals.
A city is an organism.
1t is an organism in the same sense
that the human body is an organism.
The city as a harmonious working
unit is dependent on the harmonious
working of each individual unit in
its organism.
When one organ of the human
body is inactive all other organs are
affected.
When one organ of city is in
active all organs are affected.
There is so much interdependence
in cities
For instance, the manufactures is
dependent on the prosperity of the
farmer, the merchant is dependent
on the prosperity of the manufac-
turer, and every man who lives ands
works in a city is dependent on the
prosperity Of all three.
AS an illustration, an organization
of credit men would be of no effect
in requiring people to pay their bills
if people had no money with which
to pay them.
In turn the credit mems organiza-
ton have their function, as the pros
perity of all depends upon the rule
that all should pay their bills
All the separate organizations of
the various activities of city have
so many common problems, so many
common interests and each is so de-
pendent on all that one cannot re-
main apart and maintain it's full in
dividual efficiency.
An organization of all of the activ-
tiles of a city would furnish expert
knowledge on any subject within
that organization, for such an or
ganization could afford to employ ex-
pert service when not Immediately
at hand.
There are so many common prob
lens just now, the solution of which
means better health, better morals
and greater prosperity, that one or
ganization cannot remain long apart
from other organizations for the COM
mon good.
We are all fast getting away from
that old idea that the prosperity of
one individual or class or function
involves the poverty of another.
The prosperity of city involves a
harmonious working of all relations
of production and exchange.
1t is possible for all the business
activities to come together ON an
understanding of this question only
by common organizations.
Just now there is a good deal of
thinking among manufacturers,
merchants, bankers, and even law
yers, and without any definite con-
clusion or action. The effort in
thought is mostly expended in un-
dertaking to effect a compromise by
maintaining the benefits that accrue
to the landlord under the present tax
alton and still give the community |
what they are entitled to, and which |
obviously cannot be accomplished.
A common and true understanding |
of this and all other civic questions
will only come from concerted think
ing of all the organizations involved. |
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