Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-02-10
SHERWOOD TO
TALK TO MASS
MEETING FRIDAY
Community Conference
To Be Held in Car
negie Auditorium

A big community conference to
which all interested in the welfare
/ of Americus and Sumter county are
invited, is to be held in the audi
tOrium Of the Carnegie Library on
Friday evening at 1880 o'clock, in
connection with the expansion cam
paign of the Americus and Sumter
County Chamber of Commerce.
/ The committee on the conference
named at the meeting of the advisory
committee of the campaign yester-
/ day afternoon was held at the Cham
/ Der of Commerce this morning and
plans made for the gathering. Both
men and women are invited. Frank
Lanier, the general chairman of the
campaign will preside and there will
be a program of brief addresses and
lively community singing led by Miss
Ella NJ. Polk, vocal instructor IN the
Americus public schools.
A special meeting of the Minis
terial Association will be held tomor-
row morning at the Chamber of Com
merce at IL: 80 o'clock. General Fos-
ter, director of the campaign will
speak.
Citizenship and Service" will be
the subject of a brief address by
Herbert F. Sherwood, of the cam
paign staff at the Americas high
school at 9:45 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
Frank Lanier was elected general
chairman and campaign committee
was chosen for the expansion cam
paign of the Americus and Sumter
County Chamber of Commerce at the
meeting of the advisory committee
held in the county court house yes
terday afternoon. The other men,
bers of the committee, in addition to
Mr.. Lanier, are C. S. Glover, L. G.
Council; Frank Harold, Frank Shelf
field, John T. Methvin, E. Thinner
man, Sr., of Plains, Mrs. N. A. Ray
and Mrs. S. H. Mckee.
The general chairman and COM
mittee were elected by ballot. 1t is
expected that the committee will
meet tomorrow at O'Clock to organ
ize. 1t will choose chairmen for the
city and for the county.
There were a number of women
present at the meeting. They seemed
to be keenly interested in the idea
of membership. Among those pres
ent were Mrs. Frank Sheffield, Mrs.
Ralston Cargill, Miss Emmie Mae Bo-
rum, Mrs. E. L. Carswell, Mrs. c. G.
Hawkins and Mrs. R. L, Maynard.
The meeting was opened about 4 80
o'clock by John Sheffield, president
of the chamber.
"When we are sick" he said, 1--WE
need physician or a surgeon. When
we go into court, we want the best
lawyer. So when we want to build
a chamber of commerce, we call in
a master builder"
He then introduced General Fos-
ter, of the American City Bureau, the
director of the campaign.
''This campaign which we are en-
tering upon is to be designated an
expansion and reorganization cam
paign of the Americus and Sumter
County Chamber of Commerce." said
General Foster in the course of his
brief remarks. "It is a movement
to effect better organization of this
community; to mobilize the brains,
the energies and the best influence
of the entire county and bring those
forces to bear upon the task of pre-
pairing program of the things which
are to be done for the general well
fare. A goal is one of the most inn
portant factors in establishing sue
cessful chamber of commerce, for it
serves to enlist the services of the
membership in a large degree and
makes the organization live one.
"What I have mentioned is a
broad program, but it needs must be,
for the time has passed when cham
bers of commerce or civic-commerclal
| organizations, by whatever name they
may be known, can limit their ac-
tivities to only such matters as per-
tain to the promotion of trade and
the establishment of new Industries.
"The most efficient and most sue
cessful chambers of commerce OF to-
day are really chambers of CITIZEN
ship and their scope is as broad as
are needs of the community, These
organizations subscribe to the phll-
osophy which we teach-and that is
that all development has its basis
in civic Improvement They are or
ganized so as to be thoroughly rep
resentative of all community ele-
ments: they are democratic ard their
governing principle is unselfsh pub
! lie service"
Following General Fosters expla-
nation of the reasons for the ap-
pointment of a special campaign COM
mittee, upwards of twenty names
were proposed as nominees, and q