Show THE development OF UTAH advantage advantages and responsibilities of membership in your own commercial club the first question that instinctively aises a laca in the mind of every live man as 03 oon soon as tho the suggestion la Is made to tp film him that he be ought to be an active member of his aw own awn n commercial club ij what am I 1 going to st s t eit 0 it of at it I 1 and if it the matter cant be laid before him in a light that la Is advantageous to his pocket book his interest oon lags les lese thia this estimate estima tV of human beings appear too low it magub added that the question applies with equal force to intellectual moral and spiritual things in religion or business in law or in love it la Is ever the same doe does it pay men choose those path paths which they think pay men join those organizations which appear profitable to them financially or othe others mime lee so the local commercial club must come under tho the rule what are you going it to get out of it leaving aside the octal advantages because they can be filled by other organizations there are a number ot at qualities distinctly within the province of tho the commercial clubs broadly stated the clubs cluba primal purpose Is I 1 to foster everything which tends to make your town grow Is there need of a railroad the club benda bends every overy energy towards getting it do you need a brick yard an electric plant or any kind of manufacturing establishment the club gets it have you no to town wn hall ball the club crystallizes sentiment in that direction do you wish streets opened up roads repaired and bridges built Is 13 your school system out of date the club takes the initiative in seeing that these changes are made are there evils to be overcome have you drunken fences and poor sidewalks Is the city council lax in en forcing the law laws the club by having the best beat blood of the city in its ranks wields an influence strong enough to correct those evils today there are scores of commercial organizations doing just such work in the state of utah one club founded only five years ago is directly responsible for establishing a bank an up to date water system a complete electric lighting plant and a number of at other hl busina businesses ases in a town which prior to that tane bad had gone on in the even tenor a its way for a halt half a century that same club Is perfecting plans plan s whereby a quarter of at a million of dollars will be expended in the community As an a direct result of the above campaign for good roads good water and good schools property values have risen from 60 to and every land owner Is to the result of that raise to eay say nothing of at the increased comfort the municipal cleanliness and the of living in a progressive community the question then 13 19 relevant I 1 does it pay unquestionably yes had every citizen of that town been furthering the work of improvement instead of having some sorna who tried to block the wheels every time a start was made the progress krould have been ten ter fold told what it has b boon n As a matter cf dollars and cents the argument Is irre si stable but when it comes to kee keeping ping in tune with the MOVING world the perso personal aal advantages are simply enormous the tho duties of suh membership are many but not particularly arduous it every member puts zest into his war work the clubs efforts will bear fruit if not its work is likely to prove abort abortive ive one ha has constantly to overcome the trie IS labor labar of the knocker who unfortunately cant see the good gi that Is bound to some ome out of such tolling but god be thanked for tho the knocker he lie shows us how little we might be were nere we not members of the booi boosters society responsibility ot at membership carries with it an attendance to all meetings the payment of all dues since th commercial cial lubricant is to success a unity of at action in all things ind a R effort to build up gocr toft to sum up the commercial club is 0 o town life what lungs arc are to th the numan body it if the body gets impure lr ir and injurious gases its work Is ah and it may die it if the corn com club ceases to exist the town Is asphyxiated |