Arizona republican., 1921-03-15

|. OF |. DIRECTORS
 Tabulatior of the returns in the pri- mary eleeIion of a board of directors es the Chamber of commerce, having been caInpleted early Sunday morning, the Committee in charge spent yester- day in mailing to the 1,063 members of the organization the ballots for the final election which will open today and continue until 7:30 o'clock Friday evening.
 The names of the 42 candidates as chosen by the chamber of commerce membership in the primary election follow:
 J. M. Aitken, Constable Ice company; c. H. Akers. The Arizona Gazette; Jay F. Alkire. The Manufacturing Sta company; H. W. Asbury, Crystal Ice & Cold Storage company; John F. Barker John F, Barker company, pro duce; Fred Barrows, Barrows Furnf- ture company; Wallace Button. The Berryhill company; Clinton Campbell, | contractor: L. w. Cogg:ns, Phoenix 1 Title & Trust company; E. P. Conway, Warren Brothers company; John Den nett. Jr., The Hassayampa Creamery; l J. C. Dobbins. civil engineer: c. D. Doris, Doris -Heyman Furniture l company; Donald Dunbar Dulmage x Dunbar: F. H. Ensign, New State Electric company; A. T. Esgate, The Valley Bank: Leigh Ford, Ford-Levy Furniture company; Dave Goldberg, Goldberg Brothers; Dwight B. Heard Heard building; W. W. Lawhon, brok- CT; R. w. Lescher, architect; Joseph E Loftus, realtor; John D. Loper, super l intendent city schools; F. c. McNabb Arizona Seed & Floral company: T. C McReynolds, Western States Securi- ties company: H. D. McVay, Mountain
 States Telephone & Telegraph com pany; George A. Mickle, Arizona
 Grocery company; Joseph T. Melczer
 Melczer Grocery company; J. H. Null
 rein. Mulrein Plumbing company; Ro,
 M. Murray. McDougan & Cassou: Gu,
 P. Hewitt. attorney; ). c. Norton. con
 tractor; E. c. Phelps. real estate; R
 D. Roper, Roper Motor company; Vii
 liam Scarlett, Dean, Episcopal Cathe-
 dral; A. c. Taylor, Taylor Printins
 National bank: George H. Todd, Ari
 zona Steel Pipe x Tank company: A M. Tuthill, physician: R. A. Watkins
 Watkins Printing company; Roy Way land, Central pharmacy.
 } c. A Stauffer, H. J. McC1ung ant Willis H. Plunkett were also nomi mated but withdrew for various req sons. candidates with the next highes | number of votes being given thei
 places.
 i Twenty one directors are to b chosen from among the AZ candidates , and these in turn will elect the officer f of the organization Saturday. Elevel
 of the new directors will serve fo , two years and 10 for one year, tn
 places being chosen by lot.
 , General Election Opens | Members of the chamber of com rl,<< E< the final election today are requeste to bear in mind that the ballots mus be returned to the chamber of com merce in the numbered envelope tha e accompanies the baiiSt and must b in the box before 7:30 o'clock Frida :, evening, and that membership dues fo at least one quarter year must be pal
 in advance before ballots can b h counted
 e In commenting upon the electio : yesterday, Jesse H. Blackmore, fiel S secretary of the American City Bureal }. who is directing the initial work ( : the new chamber of commerce, said h Four hundred twenty-four ballot
 were counted. FortS-seven were re
 turned which could not be counted be
 cause the requirements of he by
 laws. that at least one-quarter of tt
 annual dues must be paid before vol
 ing, were not observer. Considerin
 that All people carefully studied tl
 roster, the size of a newspaper printe
 on both sides and containing 1,0i
 names, in order to pick out and wri
 down 21. this election is a strikir
 test of democracy in practice. Son
 freely expressed their opinion befol
 the count of the votes that the larg,
 number of people would, in a measur
 carelessly make their selection fro
 the first names on the ballot and n
 wade through 1,059 names in makir
 their selection. That the opposite w;
 true and that almost without exceptis M every voter carefully analysed the el tire list in making his selection WI | most conclusively proven by the tai sheets on which the alphabet was d
 vided into three parts. There we Us 1S3 names selected from A to F il ot elusive 294 names from G to N il pr elusive. and 225 names from O to of inclusive
 l. "The judges and tellers who work h from 7:30 o'clock Saturday evenil d until 6 o'clock Sunday morning foul ix that their long hours were caused We m largely by large number of the 4 T. ballots having the names entered wi
 total disregard of alphabetical ord, To This indicated that the voter h. ry picked his nominees with great car of Doubt as to the advisability of trus S. ing the nomination of a board of C av rectOrS to the unguided and individu a judgment of over 1000 promiscuo ve people was freely expressed by sever
 The following list Of 64 names, ot cluding 42 highest which are declar or nominated and 21 alternates, is co a elusive evidence that the membe a1 voting chose their candidates careful sb and wisely. The widespread intert +o in the primary has produced a ve to | wholesome influence on the commu ~ ity. It is hoped that every pers L1 nominated will see his way clear II respond to the freely expressed will s so large number of his fellow ci oI zens in choosing him to assume su ar a leadership in the community"
 The tellers who worked during h. Saturday night until o'clock Sund n- morning to complete the tabulation en primary election returns were the f ms, lowing:
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