Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-09-17
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
LAUNCHED BY CLUB
Campaign For $50 New Mem.
bers Opens With CONNER
cial Club Luncheon.

To bring together the active workers
in the Commercial club, to inform each
what should. be done to materially IN
crease the membership and to appoin.
leaders. luncheon was given last even
/ ing at the Hotel Marion
Robert G. Paulus. president If the
club, said that to conduct the clul prop
erly and enable it to care for the vari.
GUS activities of the city, there should
be at least $50 members. The present
membership is 40. But if the club
wished to do the work of properly ad
vertising the city under its new indus.
trial conditions, there should be al in
creased membership of $50.
He called attention TO the fact that
the last pamphlet was issued On oa
lem, way back In 1915, there was nc
such thing in Salem as the Phcz com.
pany, the Salem Kings Products com
pany, the Oregon Pulp & Paper company
nor the Valley Packing company MOI
the Oregon Growers Cooperative as
sociation, nor was there an established
lloganberry industry.
| Hence, if information was to be given
the hundreds who are daily inqLirine
as to Salem and vicinity, the CONNER
cial club should issue an up-to-date ad
vertising pamphlet, setting forth the
city's advantages from the payiol
standpoint as well as the fertility OF
the valley surrounding. This expense
could not be incurred, he said, unless
there was the addition of 900 or more
new members.
Mr.. Paulus also compared Salem Of
the future with the present San Juse oil
California, city of $4,000 built up by
| its canneries and packing plants. San
Jose is so miles from San Francisco. II
is the center Of fruit industry ard Mr.
Paulus saw vision in which Salon, al
though 58 miles from Portland, should
become the center Of a great fruit in
dustry and eventually grow as San Jose
has grown, from its fruit industries.
| T. Z. McCroskey, manager of the club
'called attention to what the club has
been doing for the community and re-
ferred especially to the federation OF
\ the 16 commercial clubs in the county
into one club, which had done much tc
remove the impression that Salem want
ed everything in sight, One of The 90
jects of the federated commercial clubs
of the county was that of uniform roac
signs, he said, and this subject VII! como
up for consideration al the meeting te
be held this evening at Mt. Angel
Theodore Roth called attention 90 rnS
work done by the club as headquarters
in putting over the good roads county
Ibonding bill of 100000.
\ A. G. Clark, manager Of the associated
industries Of Oregon, with headquarters
in Portland delivered general address
on boosting and called attention to the
industries of Salem as well as to the
fact that Oregon is taking first rani
in many industries.
For instance, he claimed for Oregon
the following: More timber than any
state in the country; more water powel
undeveloped; largest undeveloped or,
fields in the United States; larges; plat
mum mines; greatest cheese state in thu
west; biggest broom factory III thu
west; greatest jam and jelly factc-y il
the country west Of Ohio, referring Il
the Phez company; finest cherries IL
the United States which are shipped t,
the east and come back to us as expen
sive MGrischino cherries; most extensive
broom factory west of the Rockies; ant
one of the most prosperous candy fac
tories on the coast as well rs manu-
facturer of cough drops that are shipped
in car lots to the New England States.
He called attention to the fact tina
the five leading industries of Salem nov
have an employment roll of 14oo ant
at each month the payroll amounts t,
$4,000. This was in addition, ne said
to the payroll of all the state inst.tu
tions.
As squad leaders 10 get out and spe,l,
a few hours for two OF three days an,
to select their own helpers, Presiden
Paulus appointed the following: w. M
Hamilton, Arthur Rain, William Gahls
dorf, W. A. Denton, Roy R. Wise, l. b
kay, Theo Roth, Hal D. Patton, ben +
West, Paul Wallace, Frederic Thielsei
and Frederick Schmidt.