The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-29
1T is NOW OR NEVER
FOR NEWBERRRY
Chamber ef Commerce Speaker
Shows the Way to a Great
Future

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Declaring that like many another
city in recent days, Newberry stands
at the fork in the road and that
whether she takes the highway OF
progress and prosperity or the low
road of retrogression, depends or
how she seizes upon the resources
and power within her grasp through
organized leadership in Chamber of
Commerce, DR.. Harry Clark of the
University of Tennessee thrilled his
hearers at the Civic Supper held in
American Legion hall on Thursday
night. More than $50 men and wo-
men attended the supper which was
the climax of the educational phase of
the Chamber of Commerce campaign
under the direction of the American
CITY bureau. The drive for member
ships in the enlarged organization be-
gan today and will continue until
Friday.
DR.. Clark's address was one Of the
most inspiring calls to community SER
vice ever heard in this city. 1t was
a plea for unity, team thinking and
team working in the interest OF all;
an eloquent tribute to the wonderful
foresight and vision of other cities
that are Forging ahead and chal-
lenge to all Newberrians to "go and
do likewise if they wish the city to
keep pace with it's sister cities OF
South Carolina and the nation. "One
of the things that has been to blame
for holding back the civic and COM
mercial progress Of the South, de-
clared DR.. Clark, "has been the lack
of vision. We must look ahead and
plan ahead. Somewhere in this sec
ton of South Carolina within the
next generation, there is to grow up
city of 100000 people. Are your
streets wide enough and planned so
that Newberry can be that city!
Have you planned your schools to
take care of the increasing numbers
Of boys and girls in the rapidly grow
ing Newberry of tomorrow? Have you
tie parks and Fairgrounds, the faca-
tiles for wholesome amusement neces-
sary in the progressive city of today!
DR.. Clark illustrated in many ways
how an investment in Chamber OF
Commerce memberships is an invest
ment in the welfare Of the commun-
ity, which is bound to rebound to the
benefit of the individual investor
more times than he or she can posi-
bly, imagine. The banker, the manu-
facturer, the merchant, professional
man, laborer, tradesman all have their
proportionate responsibilities to the
city in which they live and will reap
benefits, material or otherwise, just
in the proportion in which they put
something into the community.
.fWhen you make Newberry a better
place in which to live and do busi-
ness" he continued, "you make it a
CITY where all classes of business and
professional men will receive greater
returns.
DR.. Clark asserted that he had
heard few faint hearted individuals
say that this was period of depres-
sion and that therefore We must sit
tight and do nothing.
2 .sMy friends, when will we ever do
anything if we cannot do it now? II
the time for action is not now, when
will it be? It is just the right time
to take stock of cur resources, and or
ganize our man power and money
power as other cities are doing. New
berry has the resources if she has the
will to do"
The speaker paid high tribute to
the men and women of old Newberry
and to her commercial and industrial
development; he referred to her won
derful agricultural territory round
about, as fertile as any on the face OF
the earth.
In closing, DR.. Clark prophesieo
that the Southland with its old Amer
lean stock and homogeneous popula,
ton, with it's music and poetry, must
inevitably produce the poetry and
music of America; and that he be-
Eeved that she stands at the very be.
ginning of the most wonderful era