Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-20
SPEAKS INFORMALLY ON WHAT
COMMERCIAL oRoANlzA.
TONS MAY DO.
BUSINESS MEN HEAR
INTERESTING ADDRESS
Organization Secretary Of the United
States Chamber Of Commerce Out
lines Program For Clubs in Re-
adjustment Work-Emphasizes Val
We Of Organization.

The mission Of the commercial or
sanitation in community uplift and
! " commercial readiustment with its
increased powers resulting from
! thorough war-work organization and
/ the carry on" lesson so we'll learned
M the days of stress, was the under
lying theme of an informal talk Sat
urday afternoon az the Marshalltown
t club 10y tulvin Brown. secretary of
the organization department of the
. United States Chamber of Commerce,
! with headquarters at Washington.
! MIR. Browns address Weld the at
I tcntive interest Of a goodly- sized
MONDAY gathorin.; of club members.
/ Departing from HIS custom OF treat
/ Ing his subject from technical stand
point. Mr.. Brown devoted his tiTna' to
an informal discussion Of conditions
! following tho great world struggle
I the prospective results of the peace
conference. and mainly, TO the task OF
tic commercial organization of the
smaller city in developing unity of
action in its trade community.
7 Better Business Conditions Ahead.
! Better business conditions generally
thruOut the county may he expected,
| in the speakers opinion. following the
signing uf peace terms. There will he
, a program Of rcadjustmeut the world
/ over, but OF primary interest to the
! people Of America is the problem Of
trcadluStmcnt AZ home. The American
readjustment program. however is
largely local. and every locality must
/ work out its own rcadjustmcnt prob
( lens. Men have become accustomed.
thru their work with war organize
tions. TO think and sec things on
greater plane. and rcadjustmcnt prob
( lens should. and will he gra~ped and
/ solved more readily than might be cx
| pcC.cd
/ What may come Our Of the peace
conference at Paris. Mr. Brown said. il.
purely a ma;ter Of speculation. but
( Il may result, among other things, in
! The coordination OF the merchant
( fleets "f the world. in the re-arranCc-
mont Of tariffs Of the world in com
mon interest, and In the formation of
/ a League of nations tor the protection
( or the worlds peace.
! Tho war has taught America its
great power and all america has
! learned 10 carry on" said Mr, Brown.
/ and as a result tasks which two years
ago might have seemed impossible Of
la accomplishment today could be under
/ taken with a firm conviction Of sue
cess.
/ No Fear Of Bolshevism.
, There should he no fear IF boil
-hcyism in America. said Mr.. Brown.
/ In Russia. birthplace Of this child Of
ANARCHY, conditions are vastly differ
ont There large towns may be found
which are 1000 miles from a railroad.
and hundreds ot thousands Of Russian
people would not have known there
was world war except thru the in
/ corruption in the supply OF the neces-
/ sites Of life. When the population Of
/ isolated districts found themselves
unable to buy goods they came to the
realization that the World. including
their own Russia. was at war.
! The war was a conflict between two
/ forms Of ernment-autocracy and
| democracy. This great struggle was
| not fought to successful conclusion
alone in trenches and on open battle
fields. but in the. grain fields in the
! factories, at the desks and in the
homes. Today men in all walks Of
life. with n realization Of the reSpon-
siblities of great war. are prepared
10 take up the task Of reimbursement
ard reconstruction.
Side Lights on Big Figures.
4 sidolight on three figures which
came into prominence as A result Of
tho war was interestingly presented
by Mr.. Brown. He spoke OF a lunch
con given by Henry Morganthau. in
the winter Of 1894. at Constanti-
nople. al which he was guest and
where he met Enver Bey and Taalet
Pasha. rulers OF the Turkish empire.
Enver Rey, young Turk. about 80
years of age, was a Pole by birth. n
German by education. and Il Turk by
marriage and religion. This remark
p),le man. leader Of the Young Turks
party. had seized the reigns OF power
and was able. to deliver the Turkish
people to! world war Thru him
. we're the Turks delivered, body and
.. soul. by small body OF men with
- interest TO serve but personal am
bition.
Later Mr.. Brown went to Sofia
where he met Ferdinand car Of the
Bulgars. In this man he had expected
to find a commanding military figure;
! instead he found a timid weaklins
J whose hobby was the collection o!
! butterflies and flowers. He had in
herited a dislike for suffering. bu
had no compunction in delivering thu
Bulgar nation TO the world war. Hi
people, remarkable peasant race
1tere pleased to call themselves Nth
Americans Of the balkans
/ r What Organization Can Do.
Today it Is the power Of organized
j commercial bodies to do much towar'
the readjustment of conditions II
! America, said The speaker. The goo
commercial organization should have
in his opinion, active and efficien
committees on production. industry
commerce and transportation. Man
organizations in prosperous communi
ties, he said.s came to a standsti
when they had accomplished much T.
their own towns. When the affairs Q
home have been taken care of salts
factorily then the commercial bod
had larger task, that of reaching on
4 to embrace all the retail TERRITORY
thereby increasing its purchasin
power. s
The greatest problem of the com