Show LIONS EFFORT TO IN ALL BUSINESS special week october 1925 19 25 set apart as business confidence week the lions club of richfield together with 2257 other lions liona c lubs clubs of the united states and canada is putting on a business confidence week from october 19 to 25 inclusive A call has gone forth to the president and secretary of every lions club from the board of directors which recently met at chicago urging that a committee be appo appointed ted at once to enlist the cooperation tion of the press the other civic civic organizations of the city and all agencies pointing out the advantages of that community and the many reasons everyone has for being confident and carrying on business as usual As the slogan for each lions club this sentence from one of calvin Coolid recent articles has been suggested it is now a public duty to pay bills promptly and buy what you can afford in his letter to lions club officers the secretary general of international ter points out in these words that the chief need is confidence fi there seems to be too much of everything too much corn cotton wheat copper and even money for the prices are low on all products and you can borrow money an on call at one per cent yet the sellers of each product seem to be the only ones that have more than sufficient savings deposits and bank balances have increased the answer to all this apparently is that nearly everybody for a time has stopped buying and put the money in the bankc bank or what is worse has taken it out of circulation entirely A business confidence week will instill confidence and help put money back into circulation and start buying the more buying the more diore manufactured the more manufactured the more people eople p employed the more people employed the more buying the more buying the more of the products consumed it is urged that a mass meeting for all people be arranged to be addressed by the best business leaders possible to arrange whenever possible to have the proceedings ce broadcast by radio and to inform everybody through the press and by whatever secondary means is found desirable that the business depression is almost en continued on page 8 lion lead effort to restore faith in all business continued from page 1 a state of mind and that the way to end it i t is to go forward with bu business s in ess A local movement of this character is already being staged by the lions club and other civic organizations of muskegon mich they call it a campaign to bust the buyers strike they have made it very definite by seeking to pledge 2500 persons to spend not less than each in the three lays days of the campaign thus putting a quarter of a million dollars into instant circulation further they plan to pledge each unmarried person with an income of 1500 or more to spend at least 50 in the same period |