The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-04-30
LABORS TO Be LASTING
Civic and Commerce Body
Permanent One
WORK IS WELL DONE
Will Not Have To Be Repeated
Is Assertion of the
Promoters


over again in a year or two? Is the
new Civic and Commerce Association
Of Mankato going to be a permanent
institution"
These questions are naturally upper
most in many minds. The answer con-
stitutes the last OF the series of dis,
cussions which has this week been
presented on behalf of the campaign
executive committee preliminary to
the membership campaign TO be made
next week.
The question of the perTanence of
the new Civic and Commerce AsSocia-
ton of Mankato has been asked sew
eral times. In the minds of those who
have examined the plans of the or
LIMITATIONS, there is Of course no such
question, but the question will be
raised in order to fortify those inter-
ested in the success of the organiza-
ton campaign it will be desirable to
point out certain obvious facts.
Depends On Cooperation.
"a Civic Comm ercial Association
is an organization whose life depends
upon the activity and CO operation of
its membership. A board Of directors
does Sot constitute a Civic CONNER
Cldl ASSoCldtlou. n podIu VI uiIeClOiS
without the support of the membership
is important. Consequently the plan
of organization for a Civic CONNER
cial Association must look forward to
permanency and constantly increas-
ing strength must deal first last and
all the time with membership.
Membership AS A Spur.
"The new members who will come
in large numbers to the Civic and
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will he eager and insistent that the as
ISOLATION do something. 1t has been
the practice in some Civic Commercial
Association campaigns after the MEM
bers have been solicited, to promptly
forget them. After this campaign not
a day will elapse before the call will
go out for the members to elect the
officers and directors. AS soon as this
job is finished, the members will again
ton: What is the Civic and Commerce
Association of Mankato going to do?
When each member of the cham
Der has answered this question, the
membership as whole will have Civ
en- to the directors a well-defned pro-
gress to which they are pledged.
1.-THE next question before the mem
bership is: Who will carry this pro-
gress through? Again the answer
luuOl COtLS HULL ILC LuCulbCl ohlp L hO
board of directors is directing body
and the membership is the working
body.
Specific Committee Tasks.
"Out of the progress of work will
come carefully defined specific jobs
for the committees to do. There will
be no standing committees and no
waiting committees. Each assignment
that is given to committee will be
tnif IN, trnn irO hof 10 t~ hn
done and when. 1t is the business of
the manager of the association and of
the President of the Board of Direc-
tors to see that the committee keep
busily on their Jobs.
"The only way to insure the per-
manence of a voluntary organization
of men is to keep them busy and in
terested. When a man has served on
committee or accom- panied some
specific service for the community he
is proud of it. He becomes an inter
ested and loyal member of the asso-
citation, ready to respond to any call
that comes to him.
A man working on committee for
some particular purpose is brought
into intimate touch with associated
problem of the community that de
mand attention, so that no man can
work in a Civic Commercial Associ-
of the city's needs and constantly
growing interest and loyalty to the
larger purposes of the organization
of which he is a member.
Keeping Members informed.
The ways and means that have been
discovred to make effective the
voluntary servic of large group of
citizens are the result of long study
and experience. They nave within the
last two or three years been given
something akin to scientific analysis
and definition and have been worked
into a definite organization plan.
The executive managem ent of a !
Civic Commercial Association should
naturally conduct a well defined pub
licity program for all the activities |
Of the chamber for the benefit of the |
whole community, should give quick |
response to all inquiries and requests |
of the members and should keep the |
citizens constantly ''dvised of what |
other progressive cities are doing and |
how they are doing it
These are the plans that make the |
modern Civic Commercial Associa-
tion permanent. These are the plans
thu will govern the Civic and Com
merce Association of Mankato which
is to be established in Mankato.