The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-11-13
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ROTARY MEETING
MANYeAcTIyfmEs MADE UP
enjoyable PROGRAM AT
REGULARLuNcHEoN

1t was %Chainbst OF. Commerce
Day at the Rotary Club yester,
day. Program Chairman John
Allan Long being absent (and
President Howard Overlin casting
tabout for a pinch hitter fell back
on that Jack ofSall. trades, the
/ Cbambel of Commerce. 80
The results Weresnot as bad as
I was first feared Past Presi-
/ dent of the Chamber of Com
brnerce Everett w. I Russell was
called on for the introduction, and
his speech was marked by that
bfevityfwhich is the soul of wit.
Then President Glenn c. Price
took. up the torch and carried il
ones more relay TO Secretary
Singleton, who proved torbeIlong-
wihdedfenough to garry on, until it
was. time for everyone to wake up
and go home. Charles e. Smith
spoke of the activity of the Cham
Der of Commerce IN in securing ac-
ton to meet the housing shortage
in this city.
Some of the points in the secre-
tary's address follow:
| After all, a chamber y of COM
nlerce is no stronger than is. the
interest taken II in its Il work BY the
comnunityVssiin which 'itEoperates.
Ahdsthe more you know about d
thing, the more. likely you are to
interested in III. 81 :, .i4ai' -
lnI''fFfie chamber has a board gof
directors THAT is very represents
| tive s0f Sdiversebelements i'm our
municipal = business life. They
are, President Glen C. Price; First
Vice-President = A. E. Fierce;
Second I Vice-President William
M. ARNOLD; Treasurer William T.
Fripp, and Directors: FredJ. Dion,
Fred o. ,Eberhardt, Baseonl L.
Groonns, Ernest'A. Ramsey, Julius
F. Stone, Jr., Everett w. Russell,
E. A Strunk, Jr. ;anda%C has. S.
Taylor. 1t would be- hard to think
ofia group better qualified to con-
slider matters of interest to the
community. %efasss ,,y->.. =. -. r,,st
t'You are acquainted with your
secretary, and say your secretary
because the list of directors shows
| that the Chamber of Commerce
! and the Rotary Club are prae-
tically interlockiRgg organization
and. a list of members would de
velop the same fact. -
| tlFor a time, before Pearl Har-
Dor, we were answering as many
] as'7O or 80 letters daily and most
/ OF them received 1 personal an
swers. While' that !Has. a lot oil
| work, III. paid- dividends. From
Professor James r. bartholomew,
of Harvard University, we re-
ceived the statement that he had
written to ten Florida Chamber OF
Commerce, that from two he heard
nothing, from seven ne received
folders in which only the pfopo-
sitions seemed reliable, but that
from Key West he had received
the kind of letter that was what
Chambers Of Commere had been
| trying to write since they were
first loganized. ''-''1 ---'''- ---'''----'-
| 'aShe came, with Mrs. Bartho-
lonnew, stayed weeks at the Casa
Marina and repeated the next
year, Our files contain personal
letters from d host Of good friends
and nationality known citizens
| Former Governor Pinchot, John
Carroll Galy. Boake Carter, Nj
| ma Wilcox Putnam, and many
others and Washington represen-
tatiyes. - - -
'tAnd then the scene changed
Not nearly. so many, letters but
letters thatsit took more time to
answer. 2 Many requests for help
from people who wanted to write
about Key West and as This is good
tpsab1inity,G and the writers had
! access teapublicatiohs Of Nation
afko6eerage. Much time is spent
lin this manner and We regard the
time as well spent: That a steady
flow of correspondence is carried
onsin the interest Of i theseity in
such matters as, disqualification,
an extension of the Inland Wa
| terway to Key West, alb the varis
ried long winded campaign FOR
| that Key West has craved and
Gus governmental. expenditures
some of which ii has received, are
matters handled under the guild
ancesof your board of directors.
= Your Chamber of Commerce
1 wants for members only those
/ whoican afford to belong and who
| participate I'M the benefitscofi the
work done BY il. There Are many
in this class who are. not mem
3hersI tkss52
"If you know of snch u One you
fcsr do yonrseif ana yoiir town .
iseryieesby calling his attention 70
htf1e fact thatshe should be iee4l-
/ tkibrtpr tosthe source from which
\ fe receives beneffts. ''.' 's''s
"Objectivesa That is for you 10
say. Your Secretary is an execal-