South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-04-12
To HOLD SPECIAL
DINNER MONDAY
Total Membership of Com
merGe Chamber Now
Reaches 1000.

At the final meeting OF the Cham
Der OF Commerce membership cam
paign 10 be held in the Rotary
room of the Oliver hotel at 1910
o'clock Monday noon. w. G. Crabili
will explain in detail the housing
campaign for 1919, including in his
talk an outline of the kinds, prices.
and location of building lots and
building materials. the result Of the
information gathered by the execu-
tive committee appointed for that
purpose.
In addition TO Mr.. Crabilrs ad-
dress, c. Fassnacht, chairman Of
the house plans and building ma
terials committee, will outline plans
for homes, discuss she cost Of build
ing materials. and gladly answer all
questions pertaining to the work OF
construction.
All members of the Chamber of
Commerce are urged TO attend the
luncheon and bring with them all
who are interested in the housing
campaign from any angle. DR.. G. A.
Lippincott, chairman of the housing
executive committee will preside at
the meeting.
In reviewing the membership
campaign +. L. Burch. assistant to
Commerce, said Saturday morning
that not only had the present MEM
bership of the organization been
trebled during the campaign but
that many former members had
been persuaded to renew their
memberships. Eve are going to bury
the Ratchet" Mr.. Burch said, land
climb into the civic band wagon and
work with the united community"
Rev. c. A. Lippincott made the
principal address of the day at
the luI@.eon Friday. His sub
ject was Now That We're
Aflame, Let's Keep the Fires Burn
ing" He impressed on the mem
bers of the organization that II was
only their duty to look after the
growth of the city in numbers, but
To also see that it grew in morals.
THE prime object of the work of
the Chamber or Commerce is not,
and should not be. the securing of
more factories and the bigness of
its enterprises, but instead, the moral
and spiritual work it is able TO do
in the community" asserted DIR.
Lppincott i'm his address at the Fri
day noon luncheon.
Large numbers of people of the
city wonder why l spend so much of
my time in Chamber of Commerce
work instead of in my pulpit and at
church work. l frankly and ear nest
ly say that a large number Of the
ministers and priests of the city
could do more good morally and
spiritually if they would get down off
their pulpits and get among the
working classes, whom the chamber
is aiming TO touch.
Better People a Necessity.
Material objects are important
that the chamber must work for but
il is not only material things that it
can aid the city in. Better people
and a better city are much more i'm
portant than bigger and more pop
ulatd city with the wrong class of
people. The only way the city should
be divided into classes is the good
and the evil classes. There should
vbe no class distinction regarding ma
tionality or creed, but all should be
made to feel that they are as much
value 10 the city as the other fellow.
Ministers Of the city should be
vitality interested in Chamber of
Commerce work since It's prime OBJ
ject is the lettering of the city NOR
ally instead OF the bringing of more
factories TO it. l hope the time will
come when every minister IN the city
will see that it is as religious to work
for the betterment of the conImu-
nifty through the Chamber of Com
meroe as it is from the pulpit.
The proper success of the cham
/ her means the development OF the
city intellectually and morally. The
chamber is endeavoring 70 abolish
every faction in the city whether it
/ be political. class, or religious. The
most dangerous man TO the cOmmu-
, nifty is the one who Is proposing and
: pushing class faction, endeaVOring TO
( constitute dividing line between
the business and professional man