The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1932-05-13
The Work of the Commercial Club

Every i've town has commercial club.
Dead owns have nOne and cemeteries do not
need them.
The mission of commercial club is to make good
towns better-to make live towns liveer, and to
mote healthy business and social conditions In BRIEF
the true mission OF commercial club to make the
community better place to live in.
Individualism may accomplish something. Every
business man working for himself may get some re-
suits Organization and cooperative effort, if rightly
directed accomplish much and it is this
operative idea that gives rise to commercial clubs and
other like civic bodies
good commercial club has the business interests
of the community at heart, first of all, for without
healthy business conditions there be little else
worth mentioning
To promote better business is one of the chief
functions of commercial club chamber of
merce, and to do this it is needful to keep watch
full eye the trade territory of the town and to cult
vate the trade center idea. 1t is, for example, the
business of every commercial club to carry the "Buy
it in the home town. idea to all the country side for
miles around and much farther possible, that
when any person living in that territory contemplates
buying any sort of merchandise, he thinks first of all
of the home town as his trading point.
Promoting better business requires cooperative eff
fort among the merchants and this best be secured
through a commercial club with secretary who is
constantly the job
The work of commercial club is not however,
entirely directed towards purely commercial OBJ
Jectlve There are many phases of this work, which,
while they have distinctive commercial significance
are no less valuable to the community.
live commercial club is supposed to, and can
cultivate among the members a feeling of esprit de
corpsa solidarity of interest and spirit of working
together for the common good. A live commercial
club which carries it should, do away with
petty jealousies and rivalres which njure individual
business and retard growth of the town. Through
frequent meetings and discussions petty differences
can be ironed out and grievances adjusted.
Too often the country town commercial club is
wholly in the subjunctve mood. 1t might, it could,
would or should, do great many good things and be
of great benefit to the city, IF. And it is precisely
this stumbling block that they must remove. They
must fully realize that they live in the present and
in the past, and that this is changing world.
Conditions today different from those of the yester
day, and the conditions of tomorrow will be different
from those of today. They must learn to adapt them
selves these changes and constantly be their
Present business conditions will not last forever
in fact the coming of the day is at hand and light
of the returning morning already tints the hill tops.
Times going to be better and all must do their part
to keep their city and its business and social interests
abreast of the times that they may be partakers of
the good old days to
1t is easy to slide down hill, but it requires grit
and stubborn endurance to make the long climb up
wards. live commercial club must plan for the
climb upwards to the sunlight and they keep pulling
together and pulling with WILL they shall reach the
top and breathe the sweet air of prosperous times
and happier conditions They cannot do by working
each by himself, but they do it by pulling to-
gether!-Sumner Brainerd in st. James, Minnesota,
Paindealer