The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1921-01-14
THE GLASGOW CHAM
Der OF COMMERCE.

The City of Glasgow can we'll b.
proud of her Chamber of Commerce
and Agriculture. Perhaps there ar,
but few who have stopped long enough
to realize that the local civic body i
the most powerful and most produc
tive of results that exists in the nor
thern part of the state. 1t is not fol
the Courier to pass out unwarranteC
bouquets for the sake of bantering or
the open market of a little good will
but credit should go where credit is
due.
The merits of the local chamber of
commerce are not rightly appreciated
to the mar who does not get away
from home long enough to see the
workings and "strivings" of other like
institutions. While some of the other
communities of the state have been
pickering over petty personalities,
prejudices and jealousies, the city of
Glasgow and its efficient chamber of
commerce have gone forth in the lead
of the whole of Northern Montana,
and they have done so in the face of
most trying adversely. The man who
would cast reflection upon the activi-
ties of the local chamber but clearly
demonstrates that his experience in
such work is not sufficient to place him
in the critics class.
The chamber of m is the
heart throb-the pulse beat-of the
city and the community. 1t is that by
which the community is judged, for
good or for bad. 1t is the avenue of
business advancement and development
that can come in no other manne 1t
is an institution that just simply must
exist and receive the increased sup
port of every citizen of the commun-
ity. If this be doubted, just let the
chamber of commerce pass out of eX-
istence for a short time and then see
what happens to your community
when even the smallest emergency
arises.
There is an old axiom to the effect
that "a man will get out of the COM
munity just what he puts into it." In
deed this is true; and the man who
puts the least into the community's
business is generally he who bowls
the loudest because he fears he is
getting the least out of it. This is in
deed best exemplified by those men
in the city who, holding memberships
in the community's civic organization
and who do not assume the respon-
sibilities sufficient to produce benefit
by such utilization. Then there ore
the men who criticise the active ones
who strive for community welfare.
If the community is to grow and
develop morally as we'll as materially,
it is for each and every citizen of that
community to get Fundamentally be-
hind every movement which will best
o for the accomplishment of this
development.
Successful chamber of
work often calls for not only a little
money expended but for the taking,
when the emergency presents itself,
OF a little time from ones own business
affairs. Some men believe that if
they pay a dollar or so every quarter
for one or more memberships to such
an institution that they have thus prov
ed themselves the main pillars or the
keystones of the community. On the
other hand, experience in community
club work always proves that it is
the few live ones who do the work. A
world of money and a whirlwind of a
paid secretary cannot make a success
full chamber of commerce. This only
can be accomplished by the enthusiasm
of the membership of such an organi-
cation. And. it is never the worker
who is the knocker.
The question to be asked by the
business mar or citizen of the COM
munity is not whats there in it for
me- but, rather "What can | do ?"
For, if the home community succeeds,
every citizen who has been a part and
parcel of the work which made that
success, will likewise and at the same
time succeed. The community owes
no man anytime. Citizenship rewards
according to the merit of the effort nut