Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1931-11-05
- AMBER
OMMERCE
~OLUMN
By r. E. L. MEL

Readers of this column in The Car
DINA Waterman each week may have
noticed that quotations E~9i-
nent personages have b~een6o
call attention to the worlRAsahd
necessity of a forward looking COM
munity possessing a well functioning,
properly supported Chamber of Com
merce. Carl Grey, president of the
Union Pacific Railway, says my ex-
perience has been out here in the
West, every time you find a great
community, you find a great chamber
of commerce" He could have gone on
and stated also that Every time you
find a great chamber of commerce
you find a great community" 1t is
emphatically true. A city without a
chamber of commerce in this day of
competition and rivalry is a city with
out directed effort towards progress
and growth. 1t is as essential, now, t',at
a community maintain a chamber of
commerce as it is hat churches.
schools and government itself exist.
The Salisbury Chamber of Commerce
is part and parcel of the community
and as such deserves the hearty, un-
selfish support and encouragement of
the entire citizenship.
Without minimizing the need Of
ample preparation to take care OF I'M
employment in Salisbury during the
coming winter months and unstinted-
ly endorsing and commencing the
steps taken by the mayor and the city
council to prevent suffering among
any of our people, there does not ap-
pear to this writer any circumstances
to Justify the apprehension that con-
ditions will be appreciably worse dur
ing the coming months than they
were during December, January, Feb
ruary and March of 1880 and 1881.
In truth beyond the usual seasonal
unemployment there should be less, for
since last Spring the old Vance Mills
has re-opened and some 200 or more
persons have been given employment,
the Character Products Company has
practically doubled its list of employ
ees, work on the U. S. postofhce
building addition is still going on.
contract for the colored high schoo!
building has been let, numerous small
homes are under construction in va
rious parts of the city and the North
Carolina Weavers, Inc, is giving en-
ployment to a goodly number of per
sons.
In che commercial field there are as
many clerks, bookkeePers and sales
people employed as last year and it
Saturday last can be taken as an index
of business revival in Salisbury there
ought not to be the dread and fear of
the outlook that EXITS in some quar-
tiers, for a number of merchants de-
clare that only at Christmas times
have their receipts been better than
on Saturday the last day of October.
Again there are less vacant stores
in Salisbury in the business district
than prevailed last year at this time
Take a walk up one side of Main street
from Liberty to Bank and then come
back the other side and you will BE-
surprised to learn that there are only
five, count 'em, five stores unoccupieo
in all that distance.
Let's be prepared for whatever
eventuality that may c but thi:
writer cannot see any cause for TN
due fear and he is very certain that
the response from this splendid people
will be entirely adequate to meet such
emergencies hat may arise.
After the budget for the Boy Scouts
is met this week will come the annual
Roll Call of the American Red Gross
and Salisbury having gone over the
top" last year will hardly fall behind
in the expectation that its full quota
will be met during the campaign
which will start November IL, Arm
istice Day and close November 10Th,
Thanksgiving Day.
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