The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1919-03-20
STATE CHAMBER WILL
WORKF0R ENTIRE STATE
What viii be Done With the Money
lou Pay in on Memberships.

What are you going to do with
our money!"
You are sending Field Managers
throughout the State, telling us it
Is our duty to put up money for
your new organization, and next
week you plan on making a drive,
having appointed County and City
Chairmen throughout the State for
that purpose"
Your State Membership Com
mlttee Chairman, John l.. Etheridge,
says he is confident of securing
100000 or more outside of Multno-
NAH county"
Again | ask you, what are you
going to do with the money!"
Questions like the above might
come to your mind
This organization has fifteen d.
rectors, six of whom are east of the
mountains. Multnomah county has
two, and the balance of the State,
vest of the mountains, has seven.
This money will be spent as au-
thorized by your Board of Directors
and in no other way. No one man
nor set of men from any particular
section of the State will have dis
position Of these funds. Several
hunured dollars have been received
so far, not one cent of which has
been checked out of the bank at
Baker, which is the depository to
date, William Pollman being the
Treasurer of this organization and
the funds are deposited in his bank.
An outline of the working policy
for 1919 was submitted to the Di-
rectors, and the opinion of the Di-
rectors was that they did not wish to
assume the responsibility in out
lining in detail the measures the
State Chamber would favor or op-
pose, but rather that they would
prefer to have these questions SUBJ
mitted in the form of referendum
will be prepared soon and submitted.
With this explanation, you may
see that this money will be spent
just as you dictate, and you will have
an opportunity, through your local
organizations, to outline
the policy of the State Chamber for
1919.
The Directors feel that first of all
the interest of the farmer should be
and that the Chamber
should not favor any move except
that it is in the interest of the farm
er, because it is from the used and
unused land in this State, subject to
clearing, irrigating and cultivation,
that the State must eventually de-
pend for progress.
This leads us to give careful con-
sideration to the question of roads
in all parts of the State, irrigation
and drainage, making use of cut
over and over-fowed lands, demon
,trating the one-family farm unit as
outlined by the Land Settlement
Commission, the fostering of indus
.ries throughout the State, including
hat of fishing; development of edu-
institutions, and by no
means should be forgotten the agri-
cultural, horticultural and dairying
interests. Our great assets in
umbering should receive close at
ention and with it, better trans
,ortation facilities and ships to con-
yey our lumber and farm products
o markets of the world.
Some may think it is not neces-
ary to give much attention to the
ourist traffic, but the tourists made
California and several of the eastern
tates what they are today.
Each district in the State has been
working too much within itself, and
loped for results have not been
,btained. This State Chamber of
Commerce should be really clearing
louse for all local commercial or
,anizations, bringing each in closer
ouch with the other, and with COM
lined efforts, Oregon will be recog-
ized as the foremost State in the
Jnion, along constructive lines.
This Office has received more in
uiries from prospective settlers in
he last two months than for the
anne length of time at any previous
eriod, and Let's go to Oregon
Gems to be in the minds of people
n all walks of life from the south
IN and middle western states.
Let us all get behind this organi-
ation-forget differences in the
ast and put Oregon in the first
anks.
Yours very truly,
GEORGE QUAYLE,
General Secretary.
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