The Lubbock avalanche. (Lubbock, Tex.) 1909-1922, 1921-11-29
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE


The famous Kansas editor, author
and writer. William Allen White, has
written an article for Golfers with
/ the above heading, in which he pays
great compliment 10 Chambers Of
Commerce. He points out there are
| dozens Of agencies at work I'm the
small towns for amelioration-but
places the Chamber Of Commerce at
the top Of the list.
He says "The Chamber Of Com
merce today in the American small
town and in the American city is the
leading exponent Of altraism in the
community Il is not a wide interur-
ban altruism that the Chamber Of
Commerce fosters; il is Higginsville
first. But il is for Higginsville all
the time The Chamber Of Com
merce modifies the innate cussedness
Of the average selfish, hard-boiled.
picayunish. penny-p inching. narrow
gagged human porker, and lifts IN
his snout makes him see further
than his home, his business, and his
personal interest, and sets him root
ing for MS community.
1T is a shorter step from the city
10 the state, from the state 10 the ma
ton. and from the nation to human
ity than the tremendous Jump viii
man must take 10 consider his city
before his own interest. And the
town Chamber Of Commerce is giving
the first lesson in practical Chris
tianity 20 millions Of savages in Am
erica II is not full baptism, but
h helps
"A man, no matter how greedy
and saint-eycd he may be, cannot
work a year upon any moderately inn
n0rtant committee Of his towns
Chamber Of Commerce without be-
ing a better father, a better hus-
band, better citizen, better broth
err.
after this apprenticeship he falls
an easy vi tim 20 the Rotarians, or
the Lions or the Kiwanis Club. These
grOuns interest men in a somewhat
broader fellowship than the one
which the Chamber of Commerce
promotes. They are interested in the
neighboring under-dog; in man as a
suffering or as an inspiring creature.
The Rotarians typify the others. He
who serves best, thrives most, they
declare. They are interested in
friendship, in boys. in jollying up the
country people around the towns, in
''the poor and needy one that clus-
ters all about, in parks and play
grounds, and they nationalize a num- I
MEN in these gay groups Of
Der Of highly altruistic activities.
low-browed Samari- /
tans are making the Jericho road a
fairly safe and decently comfortable (
highway wherever they roll their
chariots along. And they interlook
with the Chamber Of Commerce. IL
is bad form for a Rotarian or for a .
member Of any Of these societies not I
20 be a member Of the Chamber Of !
Commerce. Thus a stream Of rather
altruism keens flowing in
to the Chamber of Commerce"
Let George Do II.
BY DR.. Frank Crane.
There are two classes of people in
the Workers and Strikers.
There are those who recognize their
take them on like
honest folk, and do their BIZ. And
there are. those who slide out Of
everything they can. The strikers
latter themselves that they are hav-
ing an easy time. because they let
George do il" They are not. They
are simply saving IN contempt and
trouble for themselves. For every
person who Is doing the
sarare thing and carrying his share
n the worlds burden there are prob
ably half a dozen who are hanving on
b. his coaf-tails. Bot he has the sat
isfaction Of not being ashamed 81
himself when he looks into the glass.
and the knowledge that
YOU are earning yorr salt IS worth
more than all the prize Of luck and
favor.