The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1919-01-09
MILLMAN MAY co TO DODGE
CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Directors of That Organization Flirt-
ing With Secretary Of Liberal
Chamber of Commerce.

While we cannot speak so enthusi-
astically of their nerve we neverthe-
less admire the judgment of the
Dodge City Chamber of Commerce
in trying to inveigle, with a generous
offer of coin of the realm, Ray Mill
man, secretary of the Liberal Cham
ber of Commerce, into taking a like
position in Dodge City.
Dodge is live town alright, and
that life has been largely a result
of healthy commercial organization,
known as the Dodge City Chamber of
Commerce. They have been very
fortunate in securing live wires for
the office of secretary, and only re-
Gently they have lost very efficient
man.
So it is up to them to replace him,
and they have designs upon the man
who is at present guiding the Liberal
organization of a like name. They
evidently realized that in order to
frighten the Liberal bunch they
would have to bid high, and they did
it-they just about doubled our ante,
but the betting is not all done yet as
we have just about as much faith in
Millman as they have.
We have our opinion in the mat
ter: Liberal can i'll afford to lose
Ray Millman. There is not better
known man in the west half of the
state than he, and while he is not any
great shakes to look at, he has pc
culiar way of getting around and
bringing things to pass that means
advancement for the town, and that
is what it takes to make town.
Millman came here when there
were a hundred steers to every man,
woman and child in the county.
These animals were poor material
with which to build a subscription list
or sell advertising. Their education
had been neglected and they were
not particularly interested in whether
there was a newspaper at Liberal or
not. However that did not worry the
young editor. He somehow or other
got the idea that some more people
could be induced to come out here
and live, and that was his part of the
and live, and that it was part of his
all about this because we were among
the number.
Millman spent all he made for sew.
eral years buying half-tone cuts Of
fields of wheat, maize, kaffir and
broom-corn to let the people else
where know that Seward county wa:
! on the map, and kept Wiggly Weld
ensaul busy making these maps
Millman had more half-tones in his
office at one time than any paper in
the state, and he used them religious
| ly. He realized that at that time
folks back east were skeptical and
that if anyone came here from Mis-
souri, they would have to be shown
and he showed them.
The people came, and then sent
for their relation, and these sent for
their relation, and in the course of
years Liberal and Seward county
became pretty generally known over
the country. And so we are going to
give Ray Millman a whole lot of cred
it for what has happened in the way
of advancement.
We are confident that there are
hundreds of people in Liberal and
Seward county who have made more
than he has as a result of his efforts.
While he owns some good property
here and has little stored away for
the proverbial rainy day, he has never
made the "pile" that it takes to make
fellow feel like retiring.
We do not believe he should be
allowed to leave Liberal. He is
needed here just as badly as any
where, and we think that he should
be permanently quarantined in Lib
eral.