The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-06-06
/. THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

An effort is being made just now to.
reorganize the Chamber of Com.
merce. The effort should succeed.
Committees have been appointed to
solicit memberships. 1t is hoped that
every business man and every man
who has the interest of the city at
heart will enroll as a member Of the
organization.
The Chamber of Commerce was
started here at the very beginning Of
adefaticn," "depression," and most
Of the other "Ds." Notwithstanding
8 great deal of work has been done
for the city by the organization.
Secretary Barnes has. proved himself
a live and capable officer. He had to
get acquainted with the people when
he first came among US and in many
matters was handicapped by being
stranger. Now he is we'll known
over the county, and with the same
conditions he could do a great deal
more work for the town and for the
people of the county.
s Z But conditions will not be the
same. Already there is evidence that
the old ship has scraped bottom, and
that we are about ready to put out to
sea. Business will not boom at once
i % be true, but it will gradually i'm
prove. Prices of many things have
gone down, labor has shown dispo-
sition to accept the inevitable. 1t
will soon be possible to do construc-
tive work under conditions which
2 guarantee US against loss. -.
And when these conditions are
present the time has arrived to do
something. That time will come in
our judgment in the next, twelve
months. People will then have ad-
justed their obligations and will have
adjusted themselves to changed con-
ditions. Everybody will be looking
forward. 1t will be time to do some
thing worth while. If we desire to
build cotton mill in Abbeville, we
will find that the next twelve months
will offer good opportunity to do
so. With cheap building materials,
cheap labor, with machinery back at
normal prices, with the banks out of
their difficulties of last fall, and with
the gloom of the year past dispelled,
and the people looking hopefully to
the future, confident that this favor
ed section must go forward and not
backward, we say the time to do
something worth while will arrive
within the next twelve months.
We must be prepared. We cannot
stand still and watch other process
sions pass and be nothing but a
stump on the roadside. Nothing will
help US more than live Chamber Of
Commerce with live man at the
head Of it-a man who knows some
thing Of the ways of the world-and
who knows how things are. accom-
paished. SS'Et>E <j;s:> *Ai.i@D
For these: reasons, and for other
reasons which will suggest them
selves to the thoughtful, this paper
urges the people to become members
Of the reorganized Chamber of Com
nerce. We must not allow everything
to fail in Abbeville. Yes, the Cham
Der of Commerce has made some mis-
takes perhaps. It will make more.
'ilt every other organization COM
posed Of human beings makes mis-,
takes. We make some ourselves some
times. Everything and everybody is
to be judged, not by the mistakes
made at one time and another, but
by the general balance of its and his
acts, whether they be for good OF
evil. The Chamber Of Commerce will
stand the test.
Let every man who loves Able