Arizona republican., 1921-02-09
K|WAN|S CLUB HEARS .OF REORGANIZATION PLAN IF THE |. IF C.

Featured by snappy talks on the re- organization plans Of the chamber of commerce and the bureau of mines at the University of Arizona, the kiwanis club weekly luncheon brought together another record attendance yesterday. Members also came to hear the final plans for the Father and Son day pie nic and barbecue to be staged by the club at the McReynolds ranch on Sat urday. when every Kiwanian will put on his old clothes, take his son or some other mans son and hie forth for an afternoon Of enjoyment. with baked beef and plenty of beans on the menu and a ripping program of sports in prospect
 The address on the chamber Of com merce reorganization campaign was made by Maj l.. w Depuy of the American city bureau, who Is in charge of the work. He spoke in part as fol- lows:
 "A chamber of commerce is a cham Der of citizenship. It's primary func- tion is to make the public think. When the public begins to think the first step towards business prosperity has been taken
 There are q group of men in the civic commercial field who still preach the doctrine that industrial prosperity is the soil out of which grows civic advance. They should know better because the means of proving the ab- solute interrelation of good business and good civics has been in front oi their eyes for ten years
 If the public is to hegin thinking right about it's own future, this fun damental fact must be kept clearly ro the front: all property values, all busi- ness values and all professional values that exist in any city are made by the spirit of it's citizens.
 And the converse is equally true; Whatever potential values are absent from a given community are missing because the spirit of that community has never prompted effort to procure or develop them
 Major Depuy touched upon the po- tentialness of business as affecting the well being of community. He said
 Tt is quite clear that the expansion Of business may come in only three ways:
 l. By multiplying the number oi people who buy in d certain market ?. By increasing the wants of the same number Of people. or
 3. By combination of these two conditions.
 The business man who imagine, that he can live independently of the activities of his fellow citizens is en- gaging in costly self deception EverA civilized man is dependent upon oth- CTS The retailer needs customers. the lawyer. clients: the doctor. pa tients. the mauufa cturer. laborers; the worker employment. Even the thief needs victims; the snob the gap ing crowd; the tightwad, an opportun- ity to hoard money and pinch his spirit Absolute independence may bt the subject of foolish hoasting, but il does not exist
 "The whole fabric of civilization is so woven that no thread may be neg lected without the imperfection show ing It may appear like the vaporines of dreamer to say that cities must set about the development of citizens with vision; must create fine com munity ideals: must raise the stan dard of citizenship, even though other matters are neglected; but it is these intangible things that have made cities great all the way down through his tory.
 | The next address was made by DeaI