The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-20
CITIES ARE BUILT BY UNITED EFFORT STATE SPEAKERS
 AT CIVIC DINNER
Enthusiasm at Dinner Last Night Augurs Well for the Coming New Member
 ship Drive of Cham
 Der of Commerce

If enthusiasm and good
 speeches count for anything then the Chamber of Commerce
 membership expansion drive, to be made next week, will be a great success.
 The civic dinner at the Tutwi1er ho- tel last night, planned by the repre- sentatfves of the American city bureau. who has charge of the campaign, and attended by over 300 men and women. I was one of the most successful affairs
 of the kind that has been held fin Dir- mingham in many n day. | From the moment President R. A. | Brown of the Chamber of Commerce called the meeting to order until Judge | E. IT. Cabaniss, who tpresided, dis missed the audience with the question, we have heard the call. Are we go- l ing to answer it?" there was not a dull moment
 Dinner was served in the ballroom of the Tutwiler hotel and when 1t had been disposed of President Brown of the Chamber of Commerce called upon Morris w Bush, president of the Bir- mingham Coke and By-Products com pany to make statement about the proposed memorial to be built in Bir- mIngham to the soldiers of the world war.
 l MT. Bush referred briefly to the meetings that have been held, of the appointment of committee. of which l he Is chairman, and of their decision to raise $1 100000 with which to build a community house. in which will be combined an auditorium and halls and rooms for other purposes.
 l President Brown then introduced 10. i H. Cabaniss, who presided In taking | the chair MT. Cabaniss stated that many drives had been made heretofore 1 for the benefit of those outside of Bir- l mingham and that now we are about to make a drive for the benefit of Bir- mingham.
 He introduced Dr. Middleton s. Barn. l we'll. rector of the Church of the Ad- vent. who made an appealing address on the "Tomorrow," saying that Bir- | mingham began 47 years ago as a | dream of few men who lived to see their dream realized, and that the flu | ture growth of the city will be no less great because of the dream of the men | today.
 | LIT. bdTnWeli SdlQ III cA Pih | mingham he did not think of the 225,- 900 people scattered over Jones valley but of a city built up solidly from Roe buck to Fairfield. He said no city can grow without plans, intelligent organi- zation and the coordination of the forces and power of the community
 and that the Chamber of Commerce
 was the agency through which sucn plans would be worked out by organi- | 1attou and co-OrdinatiO
 Lucius Wilson, vice president of ths Il American Cities bureau, was intro
 duced by the chairman and. speaking
 on .Community Leadership" said II
 part:
 s"rhe first business of a Chamber ol
 Commerce is to teach team thinking tc
 a community and then team working
 Team thinking establishes the value.
 of properties, of all businesses, of al professions. Remove all team think.
 ing from a community and you have nothing left that is worth much"
 He called attention to the far-seeine
 programme which Dayton, O., hal
 adopted and asked why should not Bir.
 mineham, admittedly one of the mos
 progressive cities in the country. dc the same. 'In that city community
 organization" he said. "such as youl
 Chamber of Commerce Is going to be
 is not only handling community prob
 lens of the present but is lookins
 ahead. to 1925 and 1880. It il II giving the people a vision of what tho H city may expect to be and look like ant
 is making ready for that time by tn,
 development of even the esthetic an, II artistic phases of civic life so tina | nothing shall be wasted or lost in th' meantime"
 MT. Wilson did not find it surpr1s ing that many men do not know wha
 Chamber of Commerce really is. Fl said that there were lots of bushes men in New York who did not know. WHAT CHAMBER IS "The term Is relatively new." he said Though it had been In use a centur or more there were hardly any of u knew what it meant until 10 or 1 years ago. Asking what Chamber c Commerce is naturally suggests tha other question of what commerce i. Let me define commerce for you. It i the organized means of satisfying hu man wants. As human wants increas, commerce increases:
 "Three-quarters of all the business b. ing done today arises from the mutt tConti.uea on Page six)