The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-06-10
Alger Melton, New Head of the
Chamber Of Commerce Tells
Members Must Kick In
and Work for Club.
FINANCE COMMITTEE
TO START CAMPAIGN
Say Will Put Organization on Its
Feet; Conner to Succeed
Brown AS Secretary;
New Plans Made.

Declaring that the raising of funds
necessary to establish the Chickasha
Chamber of Comemrce on a business
basis and that unless such funds were
forthcoming from the buiness and
property interests of the city there
is nothing to be gained by maintain
ing the organization, Alger Melton,
newly elected president of the c.
of c. addressed members of tn
chamber last night at the city hall.
Mr.. Melton's talk was plain and to
the point, He stated that unless
Chickasha interests were ready and
willing to put their shoulders to the
wheel and work together, first fur
nishing the necessary funds with
which to do business in a business
like manner, he did not want to act
as head of the organization
Committees Named.
Mr. Melton recommends number
Of corIlittees, chief among which
is the finance committee. The duty
Of this committee, as outlined by
the president shall be to make up q
budget of the necessary expenses Of
operating the organization, then go
out and collect this amount from
the business interests and citizen
ship of the city A slight departure
from the manner in which commit
tees have been working, in connec-
tion with the Chamber Of Commerce
was recommended by the president,
and met with the approval of the
members. 1t was that every commit
tee, named to investigate given
proposition, be given the power to
act without referring a report to
meeting Of the club to be acted upon
by the members. 1t was pointed
out that after having investigated
a proposition, the committee mem
bers were in better position to act
upon IT, then the or
ganization as a body, the members
Of which, outside of the committee.
had not made an investigation Of
the proposition at hand.
"Will Get Busy"
VIM H. Donahue, who was APP
pointed by the president as chair
man of the finance committee made
a short talk in which he stated that
he finance committee would get
)usy" at once on the collection of
he necessary funds They will first
and draft budget of the
expenses for the chamber during the
of this var, the second
lalf beginning on July 1. They will
hen set forth in their money col
Getting campaign.
Now we are going to do this
work." said Mr. Donahue IT'S hard
nough a job to collect money when
veryone is willing to give it up, but
When a soliciting committee is met
" rebuffs and near insults, it's dou-
,ly hard | want everybody pre-
ared to kick in when the commit
ee comes along. There's no use
rguing the point It's plain that
ye must have a Chamber Of Com
nerce and the finance committee
ont want the business men of
lhickasha laying down on the job"
Brown Quits the Job.
Mr.. Melton announced that the re-
ignation of T J. Brown former
ecretary had been accepted by the
BOARD of directors. He stated fur
her that j. w. Conner had been cho-
en- secretary and that when suffl-
lent finances had been raised to in
ure the operations of the organiza-
on Mr. Conner and an office as
istant would take over the office
-ork. but made it plain that moth
lg would be done and no ex-
ense incurred until the finances