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Show CEDAR CITY WAKE Has A Chamber of Commerce With The Habit of Getting All - It Is After COMMUNITY BACKS LEADERS Has Achieved Much For Cedar And ; s Has A Big Program For Future To a great extent outsiders judge a community by its commercial club, "if the club is alert and active they reason, the city which it represents repre-sents is alive. If the club is dead the community is taken to be a-slecp. a-slecp. It is a good test, too, for a community without its organization organiza-tion for development is only a civic mob. Man by taking thought cannot can-not add one .cubit to his stature. But communities can and do. Taking Tak-ing thought in a civic way is the secret of steady, and irresistible growth. So it is important that a community commu-nity like Cedar City, the gateway to great scenic marvels, the center of commercial activity of this end of the state, should have a community commu-nity organization of the best. It must have in view day and night only the best interests of the city. It must, if need be, become a busi-ness busi-ness organization with all the pow-. pow-. ' crs and limitations of a corpora- j tion. It must on occasion engage in many various lines of business. t It must have power as well as good I intentions. In this Cedar City is well situated. situ-ated. The Cedar City Chamber of Commerce is alive. It has power. It does go into every line of activity activi-ty necessary. When the organization organiza-tion speaks, the citizen, no matter what his individual standing and strength, listens. When it asks the citizen responds. There is, too, an enthusiasm with which the majority majori-ty of the citizens go into this work that amounts to a religious fervor. Meetings of the club, when things of moment arc up, are more like revivals. That is what we mean by saying it has power. It has always been a good com- j munity organization as compared i with the average, but its reorgani- zation and regeneration took place on the 11th of December, 1920. It was not so much the result of a H change of officers as of the awaken- mt ing to the realization of a crisis. I The new hotel, on which the city was basing its hopes for future development, de-velopment, was up against the prevailing pre-vailing hard times. Operation had ceased. More funds could not be H found. All the while the road was m steadily progressing toward Cedar I Breaks, Zion National Park had Hi been dedicated, and the tourists in H all the states of the union were wanting to know when the new ho- I tel would be completed. The pro- W mise of the hotel had been made. K The good name of Cedar depended W on its fulfilment. Her very future B as a tourist center was at stake. M This was brought home to the K chamber of commerce and through H it to the citizens. The response H was magnificent. Not only in P words, but in results. In this, the H crucial ordeal, the condition was Hj met promptly and effectually. The JMq hotel is going ahead, steadily and K surely. Its future is no longer in M$ doubt. Other problems arc met in Hf N-" the same spirit. Hf The government of the chamber Kf is in the hands of a president, vice- Hf president and a board of governors. K These choose as their active agent B and executive a secretary. At the Hi December, reorganization, William K M. Mace, supervisor of the Dixic- Hpl Sevier National Forest, was chosen HI president, J. C. Carpenter, one of the leading sheepmen of the county, coun-ty, vice-president, and the following leaders in their respective lines formed the board of governors : J. A. Kopp.owncr of Kopp's Garage, Francis W. Middlcton, extensive landowner and farmer, E. M. Cor-ry, Cor-ry, assistant cashier of the Bank of Southern Utah, David L. Sargent, Professor of Agriculture at the Branch Agricultural College, and George H. Lunt, an instructor at ,the college. The active business of the club is in the hands of Randall L. Jones, secretary, who has a-chicved a-chicved a statewide recognition as a booster, besides being an architect with buildings to his credit all over this end of Utah. The secretary must be a diplomat, diplo-mat, a hypnotist, an encyclopedia of local information, a prophet, poet and spellbinder. Mr. Jones will tell you sincerely that he is none of these, and yet he gets results re-sults as secretary which are gratifying grati-fying to all. It is probably his great enthusiasm for a bigger and better Cedar City which pulls him through. The need of a chamber of commerce com-merce in Cedar City is peculiarly urgent on account of Cedar's position posi-tion at the gateway to Zion National Nation-al Park and Cedar Breaks. Ccdai City cannot be allowed to go its own way and live its own life. It .must act as host to the sightseer whether or no. It is on exhibition, and owes the world the effort required re-quired in keeping clean and inviting. invit-ing. It' also owes the traveller what comfort and convenience can in reason be supplied. How it measures up to these requirments will determine the success or failure of the city in the development of the West. The great burden of this .problem is on the officers and members mem-bers of the Cedar City Chamber of Commerce. Besides, the pressing problem of the hotel which has been discussed, discuss-ed, the organization has been putting put-ting through a great road program and is now absorbed in the details of the same. It is also the prime mover in the establishment of one of the finest tourist parks in the world, a place where travellers may camp in comfort amidst pleasant and beautiful surroundings and all the conveniences to be desired. It is disseminating information to the travelling world and providing for the advertisement of the scenic splendor of Southern Utah throughout through-out the nation. It is working for a railroad and for the development of mining, manufacturing and of farming in Iron County. It is the live representative of a live community, commu-nity, and is pledged to back any scheme or project that will be of benefit to its community. |