Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-25
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CAMPAIGN IS ENDORSED
City Officials, Merchants, Manufacturers and Citizens Join
in Big Reconstruction Movement - Many Workers
Sign Up for Campaign That Will Start Oct. 4.

Perth Amboy will do II" about
two hundred Of its citizens said last
night when the matter Of reorgan-
izing the Chamber of Commerce was
put sQuarely before them at the get
together smoker held in the Boyn-
ton building to advance the work OF
community service here. A large
number OF workers were enrolled
for the campaign that will start the
week of October and much enthu-
siasm was made manifest by the
citizens present as well as the
speakers. George +. Reynolds, gen.
eral chairman of the Chamber OF
Commerce, presided, Mayor Frank
Dorsey made the address of greet
ing; the aims of the campaign were
discussed by Campaign Manager l.
w. Sprague; John Pfeiffer spoke or
Perth Amboy's Great Opportuni-
ty," which was followed with a mos
unusual address by DR.. Henry G.
Hawn, of the American City Bureau
Lewis Buddy. another OF the bureau
speakers. outlined the details OF
the campaign.
In opening the meeting Mr..
Reynolds declared that Perth Am
boy under the present campaign
win organize a Chamber of Com
merce that will be a credit to tho
city. He pictured a community thai
did not have a community organi-
ration working for the civic and in
dustrial welfare development of the
city, closing with an appeal for CO.
ordinated efforts on the part of the
citizenship here to make for a big
ger and better Perth Amboy.
appeal for community service in
endorsing the Chamber of Com
merce reorganization plan.
You are doing something for
Perth Amboy." he declared. by be-
ing here tonight. Perth Amboy has
been very good to many of us. but
have we been good to Perth AM
boy? Many OF us, no.
Now is the time for all of us TO
get behind this movement to do
something for the city. With other
cities competing with US, cities of
our own size. we must get into a
position to be able to make the
most of our advantages. We must
be alive to be on an equal standard
with the other Industrial -centers
Working together in the Chamber
Of Commerce. this can be done"
Mr.. Dorsey closed with a passion
ate appeal for support of the civic
campaign and pledged his support tc
the undertaking.
THE Job Before U.s." was the
topic upon which Campaign Manag-
er Sprague spoke. Declaring that
the world problems of today must be
solved right here in Perth Amboy In
the era of reconstruction, he showed
. = =. ri n4t
be met was through the combined
efforts on the part OF the resident,
here organized into a Chamber o.
Commerce. He outlined the plar
and scope of the coming campaign
told of the program of work that viii
cover a period OF three years the
most important three years, perhaps
that the city has experienced in thai
much will happen to shape the des-
TIMES of the city.
Not only your money is wanted.
he declared, but the efforts of every
man and woman in the city. / believe
in Perth Amboy more than you do
see all your natural advantages
and the prospects of future growth
All that you need to do is to pull to-
gether which you will be able to dc
all working together in the Chamber
of Commerce"
Introduced by Chairman Reynolds
as man I'VE are all proud Of" Mr.
Pfeiffer made the most of his oppor-
tunity of doing something and urg-
ing others to do something for Perth
Amboy. In a typical John Pfeiffei
speech, he related many of this city's
past experiences in campaigns, ir
which Perth Amboy always weni
over the top and again sounded the
call to service.
I'VE have become stagnant, per-
haps, he said. during the past thres
years of the reaction of war. but the
time has come to do something foi
our city. We should have chamber
of Commerce of not only 500 mem
bers. but a thousand men and wo-
men, women, I say, for they are now
to play an equal part with US in To-
cal. state and national matters fol
they have been given the vote.
In pointing out the vital need fol-
a civic body that will. through COM
bined force, accomplish something