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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1919)
1 OREGON'S OWN tHAMBKR OK COMMERCE (C. 0. Chapman la Oregon Voter.) Instead of a P irtlaud-owued. Portland-financed and rortland-manipul-ated organization of state name, Oregon now has a state-wide com mercial body that is owned out In the great state Itself, and whose officers, directors and committees live outside of Portland, with the exception of a small minority. The foundations for this organization were laid at a meeting In Portland, and it chose Its own name, that of "Oregon State Chamber of Com merce," ( f fifteen elected directors, four teen reside outside of the City of Portland, and only one of the four teen is engaged in business within that city. Two directors only of the fift ; -vere ch en by Portland, and only one of the two resides within the city, the other living on a farm more than forty miles beyond the cor rate limits of the city. 1 an of the fifteen directors wer self ed by delegates from the com mercial bodies of Eastern and West ern Oregon, five from each great geographical division of the state. Th; o sclt i ed at large by mem bers of state-wide associations rep resented in the meeting, and of the: e three, one is a resident of Eastern Ore a and two of Western Oregon. T ere were five elective officers. Of r-ese, the rresident, t - u ice presidents and treasurer were chosen from outside of Portland and one vice president from Portland. Of 173 appointees on various com mittees, only 33 were from Portland, less than one-fifth the total member-, ship. ing power of the annual meet ing, and on referendums, was so ar ranrrnd that every community com mercial organidation in the state is entitled to one vote, while even the great Portland Chamber of Com-1 me: is entitled to only five votes. Eugene, with her commercial club j membership of 475, is also entitled to five votes. Any commercial body hav more than 100 members is entitled to an additional vote for eac : i nal 1 nnared members or major fraction thereof. Thus, the , enterprising Baker Commercial Club 1 with its 153 members Is entitled to two votes, and if it raises its mem-! bership to 450 or 500 members, it will be entitled to the maximum ' ntir. ;r a i. e v tes, the same as the Portland Chamber of Commerce. State-wide associations who affiliate with the State Chamber are entitled to t vo votes each. T us the voting power, the same as the directorship and the manage ment, is firmly secured to the out side of the state. Should there be one hundred community organiza tions join the state chamber, each would have Us one vote plus the sibilities of a genuine State chamber r . v't's f r cv h me hundred have captured the Imaginations of additional members, making a tota. the big men of Oregon outside of as of perhaps 115 to 125 votes as well as within Portland, against only five votes of the Port- What can a State Chamber do? lacd Chamber of Commerce The ft crystaUila the general possibility of Portland control fa thus UnMtat Qf bBsineM men of Q eliminated in the structure of th. aad gUe ft unRed elpreaston of state organization. pilbUc ouesUon the decision of when Needless to say, the broad-minder affects Oregon or business in Oregon, businessmen of Portland are pleased At present, this sentiment is ex with this arrangement, while those j-.bsed only by individuals. In no whose vision is not so broad are v. ay is it organized or mobilized. A s r.i what 'uzied by it. The senti- unification of this sentiment Is cer- meut was strong at the outset of the meeting, so far as some members of the Portland delegation was con cerned, that Portland having one-,i.h-l of the- population of the state was entitled to one third of the voting power fa the state organiza tion. This suggestfon met with no en thusiasm from the state delegates, gii tin r ' ". eded its fairness. Others from Portland, however, fell that it was necessary to wipe out. auy possibility of Portland control, aud advanced the proposal which won the enthusiasm of the outside and which ultimately was adopted, and which Is outlined in its essentials above. All the Portland delegates are Im measurably pleased, now that the matter is adjusted, for the reasou that the enthusiasm of the outside delegates is so genuine, and it is to y;.'. tto:-m the organization will owe whatever success it attains. It is evident that the "Outside" owns the State Chamber, body, boots and B. V. D.'s, tongue and running gear. Can the "Outside" mi .e a suie-s if Us own organiza- laln to have its effect when brought to bear on any controversy before the Legislature or the People of Orogon. It can act as a clearing house for information on all subjects relating io the development of Orelon's na tural resources, or for the Improve ment of every section of the state. Tliis information, assembled as only it can be gathered by a state organi zation that ramifies into every pari i' Oregon, will be valuable to every move that is made for developing the state or any of its localities. When presented, it would have the backing .f a body that was truly representa tive of the entire state and not of the possible selfish interest of the me tropolis alone. Without attempting to mention the possibilities of using this infor MdiioU in a way that will directly aid in the development of Oregon, aud thereby help different parts of the siate in a direct way, we merely .,Ui,gest what can be dope along thb lines of securing funds for Reclama i ..u of Arid aud Swamp lands, of Ljgged-oft Lands, Good Roads, Rail way extension, UstaDlishment of Iu- tion, and what good will ft do the Qustries, Land Settlement and oth state as a whole if it does make a projects the vastness of which pre- I elude the possibility of an individual success of it? Of course ti e "Outside" can make.r au isolated community accom a success of it. Has not this been piishing much toward financing. A demonstrated over and over agaiu State Chamber, mobilizing the iufor in the recent patriotic drives, thatjmation that comes from Its con the outside committeemen and drive j sJtuent membership as to local needs managers were able to put their; aud local opportuulties, and acting entities "over the top" as a rule! as a State Body in campaigning for ahead of the metropolis itself? Are not the business men of the di.'ercnt parts of the state as brainy as public-spirited, as loyal to the state, as devoted to its development jective. as the business men of Portland? Are not many or them as "Big" in the best sense of the word as th? I;i ' uuid.it .-s men of Portland? No one who knows the business men of the "outside" and of Portland 1 veil can deny ar. affirmative answer to any part of these questions. Tha Pnrtlanrler who imagines that his pity contains all of the big, brainy, j " Chamber of Commerce iioinooo'ui me uuuea oiaies ui America is broad-minded, successful business :t. a.-ters . i Oregon lacks acquain tance. Such men are scattered that followed. Propositions to which it is intend- througout the state, confined to no ed to commit the State Chamber as one dl Hn or section thereof, and a whole are submitted to ' the con-certai- not confined within the stituent commercial bodies is written bounce ies of its most populous form, with arguments for and municipality. against. The local commercial body It is evident, too, that the pos- then acts upon each proposal in ac- Freedom's Victory in Wilson's Christmas Dinner f AM Wi1 .r.V-HIAVi ... " i he proud- nrropant and selfish William HohenzollPrn, once Prussian kaiser, ate a fugitive meal win p int' i nerl in Holland, our victorious war president, Wocdrow Wilson ate nis- Cnrisimas dinner with Yank warriors on German soil, showing democracy's great stride in the year just closing. Here is Tieves, one of the oldest German towns on the Moselle, river, where the Wilson parly partook of the joyful meal. The bridge here has survived since tha days of imperial Rome, i'nkri I A-rirt- 1 DEAVER 33 OAR D runt woon rtefttf untw 1 1 TRADE MARE i mmm O mm Look at these Beaver Board Wails and Ceilings passage of heat, cold and sound ; it is more sanitary than other materials; it is very quickly and easily put up. Drop us a line or come in and see us. Tum-A-lum littler Co. Lexington and lone THEN picture to yourself the beauty of the pebbled surface, painted in warm, soft colors; and you get some idea of the superiority of Beaver Board to lath and plaster. But you ought to see the real thing, and we shall be glad to show it to you, as no picture can tell the whole story. Beaver Board never cracks; it resirta corv. i "i its own conception of what Is r. lit and wrong. The action Is re corded at headquarters, and if two thirus of the votes irom all over thb state are In favor of the proposal, it is au pled and the Chamber is bound to support it as its policy. An expression of the State Cham ber, therefore, will be In fact what it purports to be in name, an actual exp; ssion by at least two-thirds of its - lembership in written form. It wil uae all the weight that such iu uiu have, because it will be tru..- representative in the most exact sense. , - t I its chamber as committees, or its Board of Dlrec t: '-- :t, d. may ti ke action and mal. j recommendations, but are not permitted to use the name of the Chamber Itself in support of their iei ..(ia !,."cs. ' Such action must stand alone as the action of the body whi. li took it, and not as the action of ti a State Chamber. This makes it possible for Individual committees i. .. aot in emer gencies without committing the State Chamber as a wh.de to actu u they ma s. e The S ate Chamber itself may te committed jnly by the formal consent of two-thirds of its voting i i.ig aud safe guarded in every way. It will be difficult for the State Chamber to get into action on many questions before or during the next session of the State Legislature, but if its machinery can be started into operation in time and it does take action on any one question, Its action is b li have weight and prestige. No one will be able to say that its formal recommendation was adopted hastily, after a hearing of only one side, or that it represents merely the selfish Interest of only a clique of members. It will be Impressive be cause of the restrictions surround ing it, and could not be disregarded by auy legislator. l H L. MONTERESTELU MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS PENDLETON. OREGON FINS MONUMENT AND CEMETERY WORK All parties interested in getting work in my line should get lny prices and estimates before placing their orders ALL WORK GUARANTEED Youd hardly know Pete was chewin lujuguitiou by Public and Private bodies, would be a power indeed ,v i.oa brought behind any move that had actual development as its ob- i To safesruard these exDresslons ot the State Chamber as a whole, so they will not be regarded as adopted ao so many resolutions are, without .i&ing truly representative, the cele brated "Referendum" of Oregon has been chosen for the method proced ure. The plan as used so success- Our fobd Gospel eat less serve less waste nothinj America's Pledge of Food Gave Heart to the Allies In Their Darkest Hour Wliiitpver Is nwi'SMiry America will send Thin whs Aini'i'ica's pledge to the interallied food council. And be cause the American food army had hlthi'i'io nimle good they took heurt and went forwurd. Yet he says he gets more satisfaction out of his small chew of Gravely than he ever got out of a big chew of ordinary to bacco. "Real Gravely has a pure, rich taste," says Pete. "It's sweetened just enough, and one small chew holds its good taste so long. I figure that this class of tobacco costs me nothing extra may be less than I'd have to spend for ordinary plug." It goes further that's why yom can ft tht good taste of this class of tobacco without extra cost. 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