El Nuevo mexicano., 1919-02-06
What We Need
Us More Growing,
Lenoir Says
Editor New Mexican: !.

I A HHI4 MHNFI ~
Spirit has built many q tow
with one one-hundredths the re
sources Of Santa Fe. Spirit, more
than anything else, Is responsible fol
Alburquerque's progress. Spirit trans
formed the las Vegas Commercial
Club from a purely social organize
ton to q Chamber OF Townshelpfnl
ness. Spirit, the spirit Of the men
OF the range, made and will per-
petuate the Cowboys Reunion. Spirit
is rapidly pushing such towns as
Clovis, Clayton, Deming and TIL.
cumcari into the metropolis class.
Spirit right at this time, is waking
up Roswell thru the pepfuI re.
organization of its Chamber Of Com
merce.
Spirit can do wonders for Santa
Fe. The writer has always felt that
there Is more latent, s~lumbering
spirit In Santa Fe than in any other
city he has visited. All that wa
needed, he felt, was a leader to I'M
leash this spirit and then harness
1t up in a strong Organization. Once
this organization was a going con.
Germ Santa Fe would never find il
necessary to 60 out and beg men to
talte an interest in their own bread
winning, which after all, epitomizes
the raison d. etre OF our Commercial
Clubs or Chambers of Commerce.
Now the average Chamber Of Com
MERGE is usually no stronger than
the personality, ability and initia-
tive Of its secretary. This should
not be. A Chamber Of Commerce
should be SO officerized and com.
mitteeized by its citizensmembefs
that it should keep right on func-
tioning, much as a piece of well oiled
machinery, M matter whether a sec
is on the job or nota A
secretary Isl, of course. admittedly
necessary to guide the activities, to
carry out the wishes of the member
hut he should never be in
And there, it appears,
Is the real erux. of the situation
the real reason why SO many com
nercial organizations have such
9~leyator-like existences. The mem
3ers literally ''let George do it,
With the secretary playing George
md then when he doesn't perform
he super. they stand around and
Jet up an unholy howl.
You line your Rooster with the
est of the Boosters suggests a slo-
which Santa Fe might use.
BE q 6oosterRooster and Crow for
'anta Fe".
Should a button be desired, place
hereon the cockiest kind Of a crow.
ng rooster and around the framed
order the words Of the suggested
And by Growing we do not mean
like the poor old rooster
Ehen 1T made its first trip into the
ightleas raFrtie,e and Just naturally
rowed itself to death, Unfortunately,
mQng Chambers Of Commerce, we
ae too much OF this sort of thing.
ONES a big banquet, then enthlt
mostly from the stomach up),
few ~inspirational speeches, which
ever reach the brass tacks'' OF the
tuation, and, before the show is
YER, everybody growing themselves
parse.
Next day, if the banquet has not
ven them Indigestion, they may
crow a couple times more.
ut the days, the months, some
mes the years pass, before they
yers crow again.
The iowly Santa Fe rooster can
mighty profitably emulated by
all. Day in and day out, month
and month out. year in and year
It. rain, snow or sunshine. he
,eps on growing, growing growing.
) the man who really loves his
,me town, Growing for it gives him
vast amount OF satisfaction. To
8 fellow who loves himself, his
his own self interests
he does his town, growing
III do him a heap Of good and
addally swing him into the sincere,
g genuine rooster-booster class.
it the big idea is to keep on crow
growing growing. Growing when
rains, growing when the sun
ines. Growing while at home and
road. growing while away from
me. Even the erecting of q big
4 mechanical rooster down at the
aza, which would automatically
ow the hours OF the day wouldn't
an entirely crazy idea and 1t
ght sort-o' remind us Of III duty
be always on the crow for our
u home town.
PHIL 1T LENoIR.