Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-11-20
TO ORGANIZE
in this COUNTY
SPECIAL MEETING OF CONNER
CIAL CLUB HELD LAST NIGHT
TO CONSIDER MATTER

TO CONSIDER MATTER
A special meeting of the CONNER
cial Club was held in the basement
of the library last night to consid-
ed the matter of advancing the ad-
vantages of Iowa in general and the
advantages of the local community
in particular. r. V. Lucas, repre-
sentative of the Greater Iowa AS
ISOLATION of Davenport was here to
present the matter to the Club.
The state of Iowa has been divided
into eleven different groups and Au-
dubon county is in the fifth group,
which will have its headquarters at
Council Bluffs.
In the first place, it will be thor
oughly democratic. If a man or
woman wants to become a member
of the Greater Iowa Association he
or she will pay dues according to
her ability to pay, and no more The
county committee determines the in
dividaul quota The member whose
quota is SO year is just as much a
member-with just as much vote
and other prerogatives-as the MEN,
Der who perhaps pays $500 a year
dues. No person with a desire to
render public service, will be denied
membership because of the price.
Members in each county will elect
their county chairman and an exc
cutive committee of five. The coun-
ty chairmen in each of the eleven
groups will constitute the executive
committee for that group-and they
will elect their group chairman, who
in turn, shall be a member of the
board of directors of the Greater
Iowa Association. The directors will
elect their president, and all other
officers.
Everyone recognizes that we are
in the midst of industrial and social
turmoil--and the only route back to
sanity and stability lies through calm
elaboration, fair discussion and the
application of the golden rule. There
are many different points of view.
The peculiarities of ones business
or environment oftimes cause identi-
cal facts to form the basis of widely
different conclusions. Friendly and
serious conference is the only posi-
BILE method for harmonizing these
differences.
The Greater Iowa Association pro-
poses therefore, in the event its 1920
budget is fully subscribed, to estab-
lish a members council which will
meet every three months in Des
Moines. Each representative class
of business in Iowa will nominate
three members, who will serve as
delegates to these quarterly confer
ences. All matters affecting the
material prosperity of Iowa or the
social welfare of its people will be
proper subjects for these council
meetings.
The members council, properly
conducted, will be safety valve dur
ing these threatened explosions. To
the first meeting of the council the
following business clasifications will
be asked to send delegates:
Farm Bureau Federation.
Iowa Manufacturers Association.
Retail Merchants Association.
Motor Trades Bureau
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Public Utilities.
Iowa Federation of Labor.
Iowa Press Association
Iowa Bar Association.
Real Estate and Insurance
Jobbers and Wholesalers.
The Members Council will elect its
own officers and adopt its own rules
of procedure Its contribution to
proportion to the earnestness with
which its members assume their
risk. This is an open challenge to
the men and women of Iowa to do
their own thinking and acting-and
act collectively.
The big objective will be to arouse
the civic spirit of the state, for the
people of Iowa-if they know all the
facts-will not err in their judg-
ment. General community meetings
will be held in practically every town
in Iowa, twice year, at which in
spirational addresses on better citiz-
enship and more intense community
spirit, will be delivered by the AS
sociation's "Twenty-MinuteM Men,"
These Commute men" are public
speakers, sincere citizens. living in
various parts of Iowa, who have con-
scented to give of their time and effort
to help in the work.
Special community programs will
be conducted each year in about 1870
towns in Iowa-each program lasting
four days. Men of national prom
inence as experts in retail merchan-
dising, advertising. city management,
farm and store accounting and kim
dred subjects will be employed 40
weeks each year and scheduled for
each of these meetings.
Group SECRETARIES will be in close
touch with the thinking population
of the state and will be in a position
to advise the state headquarters con-
corning matters which need immedi-
ate attention. In other words, these
secretaries will conduct the work OF
their respective groups just as IL IL
were Independent civic organizations
charged with the responsibility of de-
veloping their respective territory.
At last nights meeting a COM
mittee of four. composed of Arthur
Farquhar, Peter Hansen, f. F. Bill
harz and P. A. Rasmussen was APP
pointed to promote the matter in Au.
dubon county. II is proposed Il
hold another meeting, perhaps at the
next regular monthly meeting of the
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