Arizona republican., 1921-02-04
DIVISION CHIEFS F0R B|G t. OF l.. DRIVE APPOINTED
Great Team Organization Started At Lunch Of Campaign Leaders And Business Men

The first steps toward building great team organization to be com posed of more than 200 of pupllc- spirited citizens of Phoenix was taken yesterday when four division majors were appointed to take charge of four districts into which the city will be divided during the week of February 21 when the intensive enrolment ot memberships for the chamber or com merce will be conducted. Each major will have under his direction eight captains. each of whom will take charge of a team composed of at least four workers. The districts will be designated by color and headed as fol- lows: White division, George Todd blue division, Roy Murray: gold di- vision IT. D. McVey; green division, w. c. Button.
 The majors and more than 60 busi- ness men of the city lunched together yesterday at the Y. M. C.. A. The plan is to build bigger. busier~anf better Phoenix through a new chamber oi commerce that is to be representative of all the community's interests. Talks were made by the four majors. E. $ Clark and w. w. Lawhon, chairman of the campaign executive committee in which confidence in the success Of the new movement was expressed in no unmistakable terms. All gave as surance of their intention of lending every possible assistance to the cam paign.
 By means of a series of charts Major l.. w. Dupuy. the campaign director who is here at the head of the Ameri- can city bureau field staff, in charge of the Phoenix campaign. explained the plan for the reorganization of the chamber of commerce. and emphasized the chief features of the work that is under way. The service which the bureau is furnishing, he said. is divided into three periods. The first is thai preliminary to the enlistment of tht new membership and the signing of : budget service fund for the chamber This is now in progress and will bt completed February 19.
 Intensive Membership Drive
 The second period is that of the week of February Fl, when teams will s' out and enroll as many of the citizen: of PhoenIxtas may be found willing tC Cooperate in a big, modern. --ponsi' ble ic-commerciar organization. VI The third period will include the per manent organization of the new cham Der. This will comprise the setting III of the machinery of a modern chamber of commerce. Simultaneously witt this will be built the program of work so that when the new body is in gooC working order it will have a definite set of tasks before it and d united cit izenship behind it to see that they art pushed to completion as rapidly as cir cumstances VIII permit.
 Then for period of three years the chamber of commerce of Phoenix vii have the active cooperation. advic' and assistance of the headquarters ant staff of the organization of specialist who are now Tn charge of the cam paign arrangements.
 Major Depuy pointed out that tn coming effort to enlist a membership of hundreds of citizens is in itself al assurance of the permanence of tn {, work in that everything is bein planned on ak three-year basis. H showed how this idea has grown out c the experience of more han 300 othe cities and has become standard prac tice among civic commercial organiza tiors everywhere.
 Name Committee
 Announcement was also made q campaign headquarters that the fol lowing citizens have been named [ serve on the campaign arrangement committed: R. w. LesSher. chairman J. O. Sexson. Miss Jane Gregg, A. s I<isseberg Claude D. Jones, R. Beardsley. IT. M. Davenport. Fred Elliott. Mrs. J. S. Stark, J. F.. Thomr son. Cliff Carpenter and Mrs. Laur Woods
 One Of the first duties of this ver important committee will be arrangin for the big town meeting and com