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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
To You Merchants

More business is at Perth Amboys
door but needs facilities and encourage
ment to trade in this city.
New sections are being developed and
peopled that should be attracted to Perth
Amboy.
More people want TO locate in Perth
Amboy and must be acc 3mnodated, for
they mean more business for you.
+ People who shop here at times but are
not regular customers in your stores
can make Perth Amboy their one trad
ing center.
The Shop-at-IIome Movement must
be advanced.
Action must be continued against mail
order houses.
Better comforts for those from out
of-town as well as for the local residents
must be provided.
Advertising of the city as a trading
center of central New Jersey must be
made more extensive.
Action must be taken against exter-
nal and local influences working against
the general commercial progress OF the
city must be checked.
A service bureau that will serve you
in bringing, holding and satisfying your
trade must be arranged for.
Education of your working force
would. improve your business. Con-
structiye advice and hints TO your clerks,
etc, would also increase your daily.
sales.
Better shipping facilities must be pro-
vided for. Delays are costly to you.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
EDITORIAL

The people of Perth Amboy in general
have a wonderful conception of what
steps should be taken to place the city
in line for future development. They
have been thinking deeply and earnestly.
And as they think and study they re-
alize that the opportunity for merchan-
tile and industrial possibilities here are
~stupendous.
Yes, they have been thinking.
Now is the time for action.
The Board of Trade is offering you
a program of work for the develop
ment of Perth Amboy along lines in
keeping with the natural advantages of
the city, a plain business proposition. II
is urging you to place yourself in a
position whereby you can make more
money for yourself and at the same time
benefit your city and fellow man.
1t is working out a program of coop
Grafton for future development and
wants your support.
You W it to your business and to
your city to be a member of the Board
of Trade. The people making up a
city control its destinies just the same
as your enterprise controls the future of
your business. The Board of Trade
wants you not only as a member, but as
a worker for the organization and at the
same time offers you inducements that
will be of personal benefit to you.
Be loyal to your business and your
city. Let Perth Amboy be heard as
never before. Let us have a Board of
Trade of 1000 workers to bring an I'M
precedented period of prosperity and
progress.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
VOICE OF PEOPLE OBTAINED
BY BOARD OF TRADE IN
NEW PROGRAM OF WORK

During the past few days ten group
meetings have been held in connection
with the building up of a program of
work for the Greater Perth Amboy
movement. Men were picked at ran
dom from the city directory and invited
to meet with a certain chairman at an
appointed place where ~present-day prob
lens and suggestions by those present
for the development of the city, were
discussed.
The questions asked those attending
the meeting were, first, what should be
done to benefit Perth Anmboy in general,
and second, what should be done to
benefit those present, individually, or in
other words, to improve their own busi-
ness, or their means of earning a live
lihood.
The result was most encouraging. l:
was found that residents of this city
are deep thinkers; that they realize
much can be done to make Perth Anboy
a greater commercial and industrial cen-
ter as well as a better place to live in.
While some of the suggestions offered
were not within the scope of the Board
of Trade most of them afforded the
Board of Directors a comprehensive
idea of what the people see for Perth
Amboy and what steps should be taken
in securing better conditions. The
suggestions offered were from water
ways to better street paving; a better
white way along the principal streets to
more active housing consideration. In
fact it was shown that after all Perth
Amboy is just one big cosmopolitan
family all ambitious to make a Greater
Perth Amboy.
Good healthy constructive criticism
was also a feature of the recent group
meetings and the Board of Trade was
benefited in that for a civic organization
such as the local body realizes that the
views of the people at large must form
the nucleus for their administrative pro-
gram of endeavor.
The group meeting idea, in the eyes
of those who have been conducting them,
is a feature of civic work that needs
developing. This work, as was the case
with the forums held during the past
season, can be greatly expanded with a
larger organization. 1t is pointed oft
that a lot of constructive work will re-
suit from these civic gatherings if con-
ducted on a larger scale. The voice OF
the people, the true sentiments of Perth
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
Voice of People Obtained
By Trade Board
Continued from Page l


views of the city, allowing a condition
to exist that is not for the best interests
Of Perth Amboy, they will feel COM
| PEELED to realize that they must answer
to 1000 taxpayers, voters and residents
Of Perth Amboy.
A Board of Trade organization of at
least 1000 members can work wonders
for Perth Amboy. Even since the or
ganization was instituted here it has
been working whole-heartedly for Perth
Amboy. 1t has had serious problems to
contend with and discouraging setbacks
az times. but the commercial and indus
trial condition of the city today speaks
well for their endeavors. The former
Boards Of Trade have done things that
have not been widely advertised but
what required tactical consideration and
action, but, contrary TO rurnors current
in the city, they have not kept any large
industries from the city nor has it taken
any steps concerning the railroad sttua-
ton here that was contrary to the de-
veiopment of the city in that way. Their
correspondence books and any other data
is p to the general public at the Board
Of Trade rooms.
j tIli 4AiiDO1y Inv OtHNA
ing communities prospered during the
war and as a result the city was doomed
in a commercial way. Attracted here by
lucrative positions many families have
made their homes here. But the city
prospered while the Board of Trade
could not, under wartime conditions. 1t
marked time doing as best it could and
doing well. But now, III this era OF re-
construction comes the command, For
1tard, Mdrchi An offensive of LOCO
peace-time soldiers of industrial and
commercial pursuits is ordered. To make
this drive for a greater Perth Amboy
an army of cooperation, not occupation,
is being recruited. The recruiting Office
is at the Board OF Trade roomss 2l3
Smith Street. At the same time work.
crs Of the Greater Perth Amboy move
ment will visit you. They have m
thing to tell that wifi affect your busS-
ness; your selfish motives; a PROPOSE
ton that means more money to YOU and
a greater Perth Afnboy at the same time.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
Factories employing semi
skilled young men are
needed.

So lets liken the Board of Trade tc
an army. Although nobody is throwing
any bouquets at the manager, he's our
general. The Board of Directors are
the General Staff. There are always
campaigns going on in our civil life.
Even now we need comfort stations in
our city, we need more houses, we need
better buildings, more business, more
docks, deeper channels, etc.
When we sent Pershing and OH SOL
diers to France we backed them UP.
| You are asked to back up our general
and army in the Board of Trade for a
Greater Perth Amboy. Fights are going
on, our general and army are in the
fray, but they cannot fight without am
munition. The membership drive is our
Victory Loan. The only way we can
get money to back up our general and
his army is to take out memberships.
You wouldn't think of deserving Perish
ing and our boys over there. Then, why
desert your army, the Board of Trade,
| over here? If you want more business,
If you want a greater Perth Amboy, gel
into the Board of Trade munition fac
tory, and with your membership fee
swell the Board of Trades victory loan
and the battle for a greater Perth AM
boy will be won.
Everyone has Travelled more or less
and in every big hotel or railroad sta
ton on your journey you have found an
information bureau. The information
bureau was maintained for your con-
venience and an expert was in charge
of the place who could direct you, and
in whom you could place confidence.
Part of your railroad fare or hotel bill
went to support this bureau.
You wouldn't have known how to get
along without it. Would you? 1t costs
money to maintain these bureaus Of in
formation, but if it became known there
was a movement under way TO have
them discontinued, complaints would go
up from all over the country and the
demand would be they stay and stay
they would.
The Board of Trade is the informa-
ton bureau of Perth Amboy. Didn't
you realize that before? Well, it's true
all right. Along with cooperation,
backing up the general and his staff, a
small portion of your membership fee
goes toward maintaining an information
DtiCdu dl tit DOdlU OF IIduC iooiliS,
Those in charge are more than glad to
be of service to- the members.
The Board of Trade is affiliated with
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, the State Chamber of Commerce,
and is in touch with every commercial
organization in the world. This allows
the Board of Trade to always be in
formed on State and National questions
and is always in position to give correct
information to its members no matter
how great or small. Then again, if they
haven't any data on the Information
they desire, they are in a position TO find
it or inform you so that you may obtain
it yourself. Aside from all other rea-
sons, isn't this one reason enough? In
what other way can you obtain informa-
ton throughout the year for so small a
sum as the membership fee asked by the
Board of Trade?
Think over these three reasons why
you should be a member Of the Board
of Trade, and if you don't think they
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
CIVIC SPIRIT BEING
BORN HERE FOR
GREATER CITY

The greater Perth Amboy civic dinner
tonight marks a new era in the develop
ment of this city, for with it is born a
greater and better community spirit
through the prospects of a larger and
more active Board of Trade organiza-
ton. Not that the former Boards of
Trader have not been active. The
progress of the city industrially and as
a commercial center has shown that a
jealous body has been watching and
taking advantage of opportunities to en-
hance the development of the city and
make it a larger trade and industrial
center. But the Boards of Trade here
to date have been handicapped by lack
of a large organization to back up the
action of the entire body for municipal
and commercial advancement
During the years of the World War
II omeone had suggested that the Board
of Trade start a campaign to increase
the membership of the organization they
would have been voted down. Perth
Amboy was too busy sending its sons
off to war, making munitions, buying
Liberty Bonds, in fact, doing every
thing possible to win the war. The
DOdlA VI 1iddC hhiiilS liOSC bd9o WAS
doing wal work, turning over the COM
pletc organization at times to do some
patriotic duty.
What is the result today? 1t is this.
The city has outgrown the Board Of
Trade as it stands today. Surely a city
of almost 10000 should have a larger
civic organization than this city can
boast Of. The Perth Amboy of today,
to keep up with the future development
of the city and to aid the city to better
take advantage of the many inducements
offered it as a commercial and industrial
city should have a Board of Trade or
ganization of 1000 members, all work.
ing for, the best interests of the city in
general.
If a Board of Trade with an organ
lied strength of 1000 members, went
after better railroad facilities or a deep
channel to Sandy Hook, for example,
how much more it could accomplish if
the persons or corporation at which a
protest was aimed at realized that
the men appearing before them were
not only representing an influential body
but that they were dealing with
the larger body and not a few men.
Before any action is taken by those
whom are in any way, according to the
Continued on page 4
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
TRADE BOARD NEEDS
FACILITIES TO AID IN
CIVIC WORK AS PLANNED

$ That Perth Amboy needs a Board of
Trade Headquarters with club facilities,
where men can congregate and discuss
problems Of the day, where committees
could meet to carry out their suggestions
and where men would be attracted 70
make the organization a more powerful
medium of enterprise was the direct
benefit of the group meetings held dur
ing the past week in a move to ind the
sentiments of the people for future city
expansion.
Like the MONDAY forums held recent
w. it was found that Perth Amboy men
and women wanted to talk about their
city's possibilities, needs, and to outline
the proper course to follow in the future.
In them were seen the necessity of
better facilities to take care of this phase
of community spirit.
Under the contemplated program of
work of the Board of Trade, action in
this direction is being taken. Given the
moral and financial support OF the citi-
zens in general as we'll as the cooper
alton during the present campaign for
1000 members for the Board of Trade,
ii is planned to provide means of de-
~veloping this feature of work. "A place
is wanted to carry on the forums started
last Winter, but on a larger scale and,
at the same time offer inducements for
/ roundtable discussions and committee
meetings; but this can only be done
with a larger and more prosperous or
ganization.
1t rests with the public spirited citizens
of Perth Amboy, to its commercial and
industrial interests, to make this possible.
1t has been shown that the people are
awake and willing to do anything for
Perth Amboy within their means and
ability. They are now offered that privi-
lege In a most attractive form for the
work that will be done for Perth Amboy
in that way will be of direct benefit to
them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22

Power.
Power is cooperation.
There is tremendous power within our
grasp - the power of organized cooper
alton.
You and others of this city can har-
ness this power to purpose.
The way to do this, lies before you,
like the straight and narrow path. The
way is through the Board of Trade. By
backing up this organization, becoming
a member, taking off your coat and
jumping into the fight, you can make
this city just as you dream it should be.
Cities are built, they do not happen,
and the way to build a greater Perth
Amboy is through cooperation with the
Board Of Trade.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
Intra- Coastal Ship Canal
Advanced By Board of Trade

There are miles of land situated III
this State, almost at our very doors,
suitable for the greatest manufacturing
plants ever conceived. This land, which
might house large and handsome fac
tories employing thousands of people IS
now laying idle, or is in a state Of culti-
walton.
This land, can be reclaimed and huge
factory buildings built on it, only by the
digging of the ra-Coastal Ship Canal.
With this canal extending from Morgan
to Bordentown, this land will be opened
up to huge barges and these can trans
nort at a small cost merchandise manu-
featured on factories situated on the
canal. These goods will, after being
placed aboard the barges, be transported
Continued on Page 4
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22

Safety for democracy involves much
more than freedom from military OPP
preston; it involves freedom from the
oppression of the Stun and the firetrap (;
freedom from polluted water and from
impure food freedom to travel on roads
that are safe and in streets that are
clean; freedom from the fear of I'M
employment and Of contagious diseases ;
freedom, in short, to live and work and
play under healthful and happy condi-
TONS Harold S. Buttenheim.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
WHAT THE BOARD OF TRADE is
WORKING FOR IN INTERESTS OF
MANUFACTURERS AND MERCHANTS

If a proposition vas offered you by which you would be ahe 10 greauy
Increase your business at a nominal cost you would adopt IT. woulont you!
If YOU are a merchant and it "a pointed out to you that more peohe
could be attracted to shop in your establishment and more trade encouraged
to Perth Amboy in general you would consider it good business to b. IN OF IT,
If you are a manufacturer and the way vas shown to you whereby Perm
Amboy az an industrial center could be greatly improved both as to living
conditions and general welfare work, you would support any movenent IN
that direction.
SUCH A PROPOSITION is OPEN IN THE PRoGKAM VI
WORK FOR THE BOARD OF TRADE.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
In the Future

Will there be a Board of Trade mem
bersfip sign on your window in the
future?
Are you going TO share in the benefits
of the big advertising campaign which
the Board of Trade is going to put
across after the membership drive is
completed?
People will trade where they see the
Board of Trade sign.
Do you want them to trade with YOU?
Think this over.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
Intra- Coastal Ship Canal
Advanced BY Board of Trade
Continued from Page .

to this city; and with a deeper channel
10 Sandy Hook, and concrete docks,
here; be loaded directly on the ocean
going steamships and transported to
ether countries. Perth Amboy, will be-
come the terminal for this great trans
Atlantic shipping.
The Board of Trade got behind the
ship canal project at the start and much
agitation in this direction has been bear
ing fruit by the efforts to date.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
Continued on Page a

are enough for the business member
ship Of SIS, or the associate membership
fee of $40, ask the solicitors when they
call, and they will give you any number
of others.
For a Greater Perth 4ntboy join the
Board of Trade and make it a live or
ganization.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NOW
The members have voted to
change our name to Chamber of
Commerce. 96 per cent voted
for the change and a per cent
voted against it.

Amboy, is needed by the Board of Trade
Place the cooperation and enterprise of
a large number of Board of Trade work
ers upon the wonderful foundation
already laid here for future Development
and the result will be far more bene-
fetal than can be realized.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22

A city must think progress, must be
guided by its optimists, must value con-
structive men more than destructive
ones, must have a clear idea of the
demands and possibilities of future city
and national growth and must have the
courage to live up to its ideals, This
is the foundation of a modern Chamber
of Commerce Lucius Z. Wilson in
Community Leadership"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22

II believe that a man should be proud
of the city in aohich he liVeS, and that
he should so live that his city qoH be
proud that he lives in i" -Abraham
Lincoln.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22

Successful cities do not happen = co
Operation builds them.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-22

That person profits most who series
the community best.
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Aug. 2y-Complets- victory Of Carranza
In elections announced
Sept. president Carranxa in address
to congress defended Mexico against ac-
cusations, denounced League Of Nations
and defied Monroe Doctrine.
Sept 2-U. s. army aviator shot by Mex
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Sept. 9-Mexican government protested
against U. s. aviators nying over Mexico.
Mexican rebel ORGANIZATIONS appealed 10
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Nov. 2-Zapatistas surrendered to Cow
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Nov. lsGeneral Angeles. Villas chief
AID captured Il XII, .
Nov. leu. S. requested Immediate re-
lease Of Consular Agent Jenkins. arrested
at Puebla on charge Of completely With
bandits who kidnapped him.
Nov. 2e-Mexico rejected the o.. 9. re-
quest for the release Of Jenkins.
Cen. Felipe Angeles executed. ii.
Nov. 30-SecretAry Lansing sent re-
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INF; request for Jenkins' release.
Dec. consular Agent Jenkins released
on bail. '-ss 'ff M 'fa.,
Dec. s-President Wilson asked senate
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April -ls-C Capt e. F.. White made FIRST
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Gaze Msy ana sysa mail s sssS.h between Chi
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