The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-09-05
WILL TALK OVER
COMMERCE PLAN
AT NOON LUNCH
Big Gathering Is Expected At
the Elks' Grill At IL
Tomorrow

The movement for a strong and
modern Chamber of Commerce for
Lakeland is being accepted by the
community in a very wholesome and
enthusiastic manner as is evidenced
on every hand.
The plan that is being proposed is
the result of experience and study
on the part of the greatest authorities
on commercial organizations in this
country 1t is the last word in the
structure and technique of Chambers
of Commerce. None other will salts
fy the reorganization committee or
the people of this community. Lake
land wants and must have the best.
the most democratic the most eff
Client organization if she is to pro-
resS as rapidly as she should. This
is the feeling that is in the hearts of
every member of the reorganization
committee.
The committee takes the view that
there are so many things that can
be made possible in Lakeland that
none but such an organization as is
proposed will do if the many things
that are to be done are to be accom-
plished
As an evidence of the interest in
the movement the Telegram is in re-
ceipt of letter from B. A. Brown
of the Markey-Brown Company, one
of Lakelands largest wholesale estab-
lishments, which reads as follows:
| am in receipt of letter from Mr..
o. G. Lanphear as chairman of the
reorganization committee of the
Cham Of in bch
announces plans for d city-wide move
ment looking for what he terms the
most extensive effort that has ever
been made in Lakeland for an under
standing and appreciation of the fact
that if Lakeland is a good city for
you and | to live in, it is most GER
tainly a good city for you and l to
work for prompts me to address this
letter to you and to urge you to give
serious and thoughtful consideration,
as | am, to the movement.
1t has been my pleasure to have had
the opportunity within the past week
to be made thoroughly acquainted
with the plans for the re-organized
body. To me, the plan is fundamen-
tally sound, and if carried out will
give the Lakeland organization such
as any community might feel proud
of, and one that if given the support
that you and l must give it, both
financially and in personal service, it
will achieve for Lakeland those things
that will make her the most progress
sive community in all Florida.
Within the past month of two 1
have come to realize perhaps more
than at any other time the necessity
for strong. adequately financed
Chamber of Commerce. 1t is some
thing which every community needs
and it is something that every COM
munity must have if it stays in the
forefront with the most progressive
communities of the country.
To my mind, the acid test of citi-
Zenship in Lakeland is at hand, for
there is no greater service that a loyal
person can preform az this particular
moment than to aid in the re-organi-
Zation movement
Too many of our citizens in the past
have adopted the policy of willingness
to 'let George do it, That policy, !
am firmly convinced, has never built
city. Let us then, you and l and each
Of us, recognize the failure of such
policy and give to this movement our
most earnest attention and let us put
Lakeland in the band wagon of pro-
gress. of unity and of effort.
If you have not already done so,
may suggest that you, at once, write