Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1927-10-20
SPEAKERS URGE
COOPERATION FOR
LOCAL CHAMBER
Booster Dinner" Brings
Out Need of Active Aid
BY All Residents.

Need for cooperation among all
residents of FL Centre, to the end
that this city may proceed along the
paths of progress and prosperity,
and emphasizing the belief that this
cooperation can best be obtained by
becoming actively identified with
the chamber of commerce, were the
points stressed at the "booster din
ner' conducted last night at the
Barbara Worth hotel by the Ell Cen
tro Chamber of Commerce.
President r. Y. Watson, acting as
toastmaster, made plea for the en-
tire community to get back Of the
chamber and aid it in its efforts to
obtain for FL Centre the things the
community needs, and then intro
duced Attorney Ross T. Hickcox as
the first speaker.
"The purpose of the chamber
the speaker declared, sis to co-ord-
mate the activities of the city and
the surrounding territory. There
has been plenty of coordination on
the part of the chamber, but too
often a lack of cooperation on the
part of citizens of the community.
There are 10 knockers to one boost
er for FL Centre, deplorable con
dition that must be remedied, and
this can only be achieved by all
pulling together and boosting for
the city. The chamber is deserving
of the whole hearted support and
cooperation of each resident, and
should have it,
A. II. Kellar, assistant manager of
the Bank of Italy declared that the
spirit of community is no better
than the spirit of the individuals
who reside in it. "This also means
that the progress made by a com
munity is measured by the progress
of its residents,' the speaker said.
"The community cannot progress if
the individuals are ever ready to
knock it instead of boosting for it.
If man cannot conscientlously be-
lieve that the community in which
he lives is the best in the world, he
is misfit and should go to some
other place. Each of us should be
able to look any man straight in the
eye and tell him that FL Centre is
the best community in the best state
in the best nation on the globe. We
must pull together and work togeth-
err for FL Centric"
Work Capacity Unlimited
V. F. Frizzell, district freight and
passenger agent of the Southern Pa
cific, introduced f. F. Stuewe of
San Francisco, who in few brief
remarks declared that the problems
confronting Fl Centre are the same
as those confronting nearly every
American community. tln an age
of Standardization, he said, "the
only thing that has not been stand
afdized is our capacity for. work.,
Fhis being true work and lots of it,,
offers us the solution for our prob
Items. -
w. w. McEuen, of the Pioneer
Title Insurance and Trust Company,
enumerated the achievements in
which the chamber participated in
the past few years, among them the
new courthouse. better roads, orna-
mental street lighting, elimination
of the Eighth street ditch, extend
ing the work of the Meloland Ex-
detrimental station and many others.
He declared the community spirit
has improved greatly in the past few
years. the tendency to pull together
growing more noticeable. The feel
ing between residents of the city
and the adjacent rural section is al
so greatly improved.
Mayor Bucklin paid a compliment