The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-28
PRIMARY IS TO
Be HELD WITHIN
NEXT TEN DAYS
Secretary Appleyard of Chamber
Of Commerce Has a Big Task
Ahead of Him

The offices OF the Chamber OF Com
merce continue to present as busy
an appear ance as thy did prior 10 the
c"mpaien last week for membership
and there seems to be 10 let up in the
work necessary at the offices. As 4
reason for this. Secretary Appleyard
explained this morning that he is
moving things forward as rapidly as
possible so that the primary for the
election OF directors may be held
within the next ten DAYS at the latest.
Then it is necessary to compile an
alphabetical list of the entire mem
bership to he submitted to each mem
Tar along with his blank ballot for an
o>prc ~sion OF his choice for the di-
rtctGrs over six hundred ballots
VIII have TO be mailed out together
with III" fosters and ii is anticipated
that there will be at least 50 per cent
OF the members voting which viii
give the membership choice in the
primary as to who should be placed
ON the ballot to be voted on for the
directors.
In addition to this work, they are
busy compiling Il classified directory
Of The membership. Tho secretary
feels that this is necessary because OF
the large number of inquiries that
are made almost daily at the cham
her for list of the members in tho
various business classilicatiOns. In
speaking of the classified directory he
indicated that Chamber Of Commerce
members throughout the country have
come 10 recognize the value OF such
directories They are mailed out To
people all over the country who re-
quest them and in this manner very
often business of a substantial char
acter results to those who are mem
l. rs in the various classificatiOns. He
is very anxious that all those who
contemplate membership in the
Chamber of Commerce get their
names in NV i'm order that these
names may be placed in the directory
and that they may also have the
privilege of expressing their choice
for the directors.
Another matter that is receiving
prompt action is the matter of IN
profitable advertising and SubScrip-
ton circulation. Chambers of Com
mcrce throughout the country today
are saving their membership thous-
ands of dollars each year through the
censorship of Improbable advertis-
ing and this will be done through the
new chamber and cards will be put
ont directing all solicitors to the
Chamber of Commerce for an APP
prevail or disapproyal of their propo-
sition. and pledge cards will be sub
mitted to the membership in week
or ten days in which they will be
asked to pledge themselves not to adj
vertise in any proposition until it
has first been investigated by the
Chamber of Commerce.
A meeting OF the Reorganization
Committee is being called for Friday
evening Gf this week at the Elks Clul
and Chairman Lanphear is very anX-
ious to have every member of the
committee present as there are a
number of very important matters to
he discussed by the committee, one
OF which is the appointment Of tcllerS
for the primary and election Of direc-
tors.
Memberships continue to come in
10 the chamber. some of the moro
prominent during the last twenty
four hours being Robert Bryant, a. b.
KILLER. W. J. Anderson, L. o. Cason,
w. A. Stanley and f. r. Herman.