The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-05-12
MEMBERSHIP
DRIVE OPENED
Barre Board of Trade
Campaigners Are Out
Hustling
TO GET FULL-TIME
PAID SECRETARY
People Are Urgently Asked
to Join the Board to
Make This Possible

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Favored with sunny skies under
which to work and reinvigorated by
the enthusiastic rally at the American
Legion headquarters last evening, II
teams were right out in front early
o-day in pushing their campaign for
Board OF Trade memberships. Conf
dent that no lack of preparation could
handicap their efforts, the canyassers
were making every effort to cover the
greater part of the field before night
fall although tomorrow has been re-
served for the final cleanup.
Early reports indicated that both
Barre City and Barre Town could be
depended upon to register public
spirit in volume before the campaign
ends. Memberships are being sought on
the basis Of three yearly contributions
and the immediate object of the big
drive is to install a full-time, paid
secretary in the Board of Trade.
Several heavy subscr ,tions received
before 10 o'clock this forenoon encour-
aged the teams TO their best efforts.
Some 500 members had been taken
and considerable number Of $50 con
tributions came in the early part of the
day Perhaps the most heartening sub
scripti0n among the first returns was
that Of the Magnet theatre. The four
Bar4c men, w IL. Ward, John t..
Hoban, G. " Gorman and + +. Aus
tin, who are interested in the enter
prise, generously pledged the Magnet
theatre TO give a days receipts each
year toward the support Of iull.time
secretary.
II is the purpose Of the Board OF
Trade 70 put on a drive FOR the sale Of
theatre, tickets on each day in the
three years that the Magnet thus con-
tributes and the annual income from
this source alone is variously esti-
mated at from $500 TO 500.
Cauvassers. viii make their reports
at Board Of Trade headquarters in
the Howland building. The office of
Secretary w. A. Drew serves ss a
clearing house for campaign returns
and II was a scene of busy activity this
afternoon as the memberships began to
come in. George II Mackay. the cam
paign treasurer, is tabuyating the re-
turns, and he is assisted by Mrs. Mae
L. Counter.
The Mass Meeting.
James ?. Taylor. secretary OF the
Greater Vermont association, divulgcd
q thousand and one reasons why Barre
should have a full-time, paid secretary
at the mass meeting in the American
Legion hall on Church street last eve
ming. when he addressed a fair sized
group Of public spirited citizens.
Mr. TAYLOR said that Barre is
world center, it has wonderful in
dustry. an advantage which few cities
in New England have, and il ought to
have a Board of Trade functioning in
cessantly and harmoniously in order TO
bring it TO the front and keep to the
front with the other progressive com
munities i'm New England. There are
paid secretaries by the score in other
New England states. yet Vermont has
but twos Rutland has one of them and
Burlington the other Mr.. Taylor y
Vermont doesn't wake mp and if some
one or two communities don't lead the
way for Vermont progress we will iind
ourselves a bunch OF catacombs with
lovely memories OF Ethan Aliens or
Pilgrims. declared Mr. Taylor.
With problems Of housing. education,
amuscments, freight electric service,
comfort stations, credit bureaus, coop.
Grafton with farm bureaus, advertis-
ing. improvement in streets. eonyen-
tions and many other things which
come before every community there is
only one good manner of handling
them completely and successfully and
that through the full-time. paid secre-
tary.
The Burlington Chamber of Com
merce. at its last drive, increased the
membership from 325 20 l,205, and
Rutland, another progressive Vermont
city now has a membership of 900 in
its chamber of commerce or board Of
IENNt. \ ne way 10 ~ iiE u hiA t'AAahAA
nifty is by holding up a big organiza
tion. built up not from certain class
or group but from every class IN
community SO that professional, mer
camille. political. tradesmen and social
classes will all be included in IL.
Barre is competing with other cities
manned by such organizations through
THAR maid spcretarips and Vermont Il
competing with states manned properly
through their chambers Of commerce.
and the only way that these states ,an
be bucked successfully is by having or
carnations as strong and stronger. II
possible. to man your city the same
way. and which could be done through
the full time secretary.
The secretary has got to b. someone
interested in the whole town. who j.
competitor with no one in bu,ine~~.
who has no particular business inter
ests. who can talk with anybody and
meet everybody Someone who can at
tend New England or national con
veutious a. vuur representative. who
can speak Tor you and give your side
81 tha vital question and problems that
from -imr IL fimc ari~e Someone who
i tip -to date and who will keep YOU rs
touch with ali the up to-date moves u
tho country by reading and studying
and correspondence Oniy full-time
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