The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-03-29
%THE WHY, WHO AND HOW OFs
o A MODERN CHAMBER OF .
O COMMERCE 9
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Answer to Question Five
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Answer to Question Five
Permanence of the Newberry
Chamber of Commerce was discussed
by the director of the membership
campaign which is to be run this
week. His statement constitutes the
answer to the fifth of the questions
which have been asked in connection
with the drive about to open, the 9th
ers being as to why there should be
a chamber of commerce, what it will
do, who will run it, and how it will
be financed.
What about the permanence of the
enlarged Newberry Chamber of Com
merce?
''In the minds of those who have
examined the plans of the expansion
campaign, there is Of course such
question:" said the specialist. "But
others have and will ask it, and am
glad of the opportunity to point out
certain obvious facts.
"a Chamber of Commerce is an
organization whose life depends upon
the activity and cooperation Of its
membership.
A board of directors does not
constitute a Chamber of Commerce.
A board Of directors without the sup
port Of the members-.lp is impotent.
Consequently the plan of organiza-
ton Of Chamber of Commerce
which looks forward to prenanency
and constantly increasing strength
must deal first, last and all the time
with the membership.
aOne of the team captains remark
ed the ether day after a careful dis
cussion of the plans for expanding
your Chamber Of Commerce, that the
program adopted is in many respects
8 reserve of that which has been fol-
lowed heretofore in some places.
'sThe new members who will come
in large numbers to the Chamber of
Commerce will be eager and insistent
that the chamber do something. It
has been the practice in some Cham
ber Of Commerce campaigns, after the
members have been enlisted, to
promptly forget them. After the
campaign, not day will elapse be-
fore the call will go out for the MEM
bers tez elect the directors: AS soon
as this is done, and the officers. have
been chosen, members will again be
called upon to answer the question,
sMhat is-zthe Chamber of Commerce
going to do?'
"When. each member of the Cham
her has made his or her answers to
this question, the membership as a
:whoae will have given the directors a
well-defned program to which they
are pledged.
"The next question before the
membership is, who will carry this
prceram through? Again the answer
mast come from the membership. The
hoard of directors is directing body
and the membership is working
body.
.eut of the program of work will
come carefully defined specific tasks
for the committees to do. There will
be no standing committees and no
waiting committees. Each assign
Inent that is given to a committee
Will be explicit in directing what is
to be done and when, and it is the
business of the manager of the Cham
her of Commerce and of the presi-
dent and of the Board. of Directors
to see that the committees keep stead.
lily on their jobs.
"The only way to insure the per-
manence Of voluntary organization
Of men is to keep them busy and IN
;terested. When a man has served
OF, a committee or accomplished some
specific service for the community,
he is proud of it. H. becomes an IN
tesested and loyal member Of the
chamber. ready to respond to any call
that comes to him. A man working
ON a committee for some particular
purpose is brought into intimate
touch with associated problems II the
cemmunity that demand attention;
"a that no man can work in Cham
Der of Commerce without gaining a
wider vision of the city's needs and
q constantly growing interest and
leyalty to the larger purposes OF the