The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-12-07

Meets in
Great Falls
To Join Forces in Legislative
Fight for Advertising
Appropriation.
MONTANANS, INC.
URGE GREAT ACTION

tons from all sections of Montana
gathered last Sunday In Great Falls
at the Rainbow hotel for the an
nual session OF the Montana AS
ISOLATION of Commercial Organiza-
ton Secretaries.
Many men prominent in affairs of
the state We're present to set forth
ideas on the Improvement of Mon
tana as a whole from tourist
standpoint and also with the idea of
developing the unlimited resources
in the many fields which Montana
is known to possess.
w. G. Ferguson, manager of Mon
tanans, Inc; G., w. Towne, Butte,
w. E. Hammond, United States
Chamber of Commerce district man
ager; Fred Benion, secretary of the
Montana Taxpayers association; Hal
Cheney, Missoula secretary, and H.
L. Buck, Billings secretary, were the
main speakers for the period.
The session began Sunday after
noon at which time Kay Burleigh,
Glendive, president, opened the
program. Scheduled speakers of
the afternoon included A. J. Breiten-
stein, Great Falls secretary who ad
dressed the group on the reason for
the meeting of secretaries. He gave
a short history of the formation
in 1910 at Billings. The second
meet was in Missoula in 1911 and
Libby was represented for the first
time, Leo Faust being in attendance.
The next speaker, Fl. l.. Buck, re-
ported ON the secretaries school
which was held lin Missoula last fall
at the university. He announced
that the school will be held again
this year. The date has not yet
been set but will probably be fairly
early in the spring.
Mr.. Buck said, 4 would recon-
mend the attendance of representa-
tives fronr every city In H6nttana.
It Is certain tss1t Ynur1F ffIf6 fmattBn
may be had here for experts will
be in charge Of the classes"
Subjects such as street and safety
programs, public relations, duties
of the secretary, and many others
will be discussed thoroughly.
Hal Cheney of Missoula was the
next speaker and gave a fine talk
of the Community Chest set-up. He
explained the good points along with
the bad. Mr.. Cheney said the Chest
tends to eliminate weekly taps"
for donations and handouts for one
big drive takes care of all this Civ
ing. The purpose of the Chest is to
take care of the charitable organiza-
tons and build character.
He spoke of the new drains"
which are opening all of the time
but none of the old outlets are
folding up.
Mr. Cheney spoke severely against
the utilizing of government pur-
chasing power by individuals. His
idea on this matter is to cut this
sordid practice out and give the
merchants chance to survive with
out this unfair competition.
The Missoula secretary reported
the idea behind the Mountain States
Association which met in Denver
recently and was formed to work
hand-in-hand with the United
States Chamber of Commerce, local
chambers, commercial clubs and
with congressman for the benefit
of improvement of conditions in this
district.
No DictatoriaI Grants
More than 100000 American
business men, as represented by the
United States Chamber of Com
merce, definitely do not want this
nation to enter the present conflict
are fearful of the after effects of
any war BOOM, and are unalter-
ably opposed to the granting Of
broad grants Of power to any fed
Ieral bureaus because of the asser-
ton that an emergency exists" de-
clared w. E. Hammond. He further
stated that his organization is OPP
posed to giving any dictatorial
grants of power to any permanent
federal agency.
Sunday evening at $50 o'clock
the group partook of delicious
banquet at the Rainbow. c. w.
Towne of Butte, was extremely in
teresting in his discussion of
"Tourism".
MIR. Towne said that with I'M
paralleled tourist attractions, Mon
tdiid1 Old otdlCj Id ollklIiE loiJ Wy
and not spending dime to get its
share of an annual $500, 100000
tourist expenditure for which other
states are freely competing.
ToWne illustrated his talk with a
map showing legislative appropria-
tons made by III western states in
1887 for tourist advertising, ranging
from SIS, 1000 to $374,000 per state.
Montana appropriated nothing.
He told his listeners that the sit
uation presented a direct challenge
to them, in that upon their Shout
ders would rest the burden of OBJ
tanning proper appropriations for a
proper advertising campaign at the
next Legislature.
Monday morning the group heard
III. l.. Buck give a fine outline OF
the secretaries Chicago convention
a This was followed by d most inter-