The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-03
FUTURE ACTIVITIES . .OF |. OF |. OUTLINED |. BY TRAINED EXPERT
Membership Meeting to Adopt Bylaws and Ar range for Election
 Friday Evening

Plans for the organization of the Chamber of Commerce are going forward steadily and in order that the members and the general public may know some of the important things to be done in the next few weeks, C. k. Jenks, field secretary of the American city bureau, who will be in Birmingham for the present month, outlined the programme yesterday:
 MT Jenks' statement in part was as follows:
 "A general membership meeting has been called for Friday evening, June 6, when bylaws will be adopted. The by laws to be submitted will be those rec commended by the United States Cham Der of Commerce and which are in use in hundreds of commercial organizations in this country and Canada.
 ''The bylaws provide that nominations for the board of directors shall be made by means of a direct primary, the details of which will be fully explained later. After the primary election has been com pleted a final ballot will be sent to each member containing the names of those nominated at the primary. These ballots will be marked and returned in person or by mail to the Chamber of Commerce and carefully counted under the super vision of representative of the Amer. ican City bureau.
 DEMOCRACY RULES
 'Democracy, as has already been stated in the course of the campaign, will be maintained in the new organization. The programme of work, which will outline for the directors the tasks to be accom- plished by the organiza ton, comes di- rectly from the membership. During the next two weeks every member will be given full opportunity to express his views through series of group meetings ard when these suggestions are all col lected and systematically arranged, they W II furnish an at curate idea of the needs of Birmingham, as viewed by it's own citizens.
 ..Tke membership will be divided into a nGmt CT of groups with about 8 mem bers to the group At these smaller meetings every member will be expected to state what, to his mind, is an impor tant task to be accomplished.
 'The old idea that the sole duty of members is the contribution O. tLeir due annually is not in accordance with the ideas of the modern chamber of com me.ce. Every member w!l be expected to serve on committees to carry out the programm of work. These committees will be chosen for definite tasks and dis charged when the task is completed. There will be few standing committees, as that systeo, te.,ls tn static conii- ton of affairs, but speclai committees; win be chosen to do certain things and selected for their specia' fitness for that pa Iticular task.
 UNITED SERVICE
 Thus the second great work in the chamber of comlreree will be service not service by the secretary and board of directors only, but concentrated, unllel service by ai, the members. Each sub scriber has plcdged s-5 a year and if tris money is tc be of the greatest value to the city. il must he hacked up by m selfish willingness to asslst in building up the whcIe ocmnur.ty.
 Publicity will be the great means Of insuring democracy, and this will be brought about by three main methods namely, forum meetings, the referendum and a monthly bulletin.
 "The members forum meetings will be held regularly, probably monthly, possi- biy kI-weekly, and will be under the su- pervision of committee of F under the leadership of chairman chosen because of his interest in civic affairs. his proved ability as a leader and the confidence of all classes in his integrity.
 ''This committee will arrange definite programmes for each meeting. At some of these meetings important special con- mittees will give reports or partial re- ports of their efforts. These meetings will then be open for public discussion of the findings of the committee with resolutions to the board of directors rec ommending definite action.