Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1918 — SHAPE COURSE, STICK TO IT [ARTICLE]

SHAPE COURSE, STICK TO IT

This Is Only Effective Policy to Be Pursued by Commercial Club, It Is Declared. Community building, in its final analysis, resolves itself into a question of energy directed by will. If we want a thing we can get it by shaping out a course and sticking to it, declares the Bryan (Tex.) Eagle. Dallying with every proposition that comes up will never get a business club anywhere. Nothing will be accomplished and the club might as well disband and go home. Every member, par v ticularly every director, should be live, wide-awake and rearing to go. Every member should be not only willing but glad to contribute to any worthy movement that means more for the town. And every man in the town should be a member. A commercial club’s supreme, purpose is something else than , adding a few dollars to the trade of the town and paying a secretary .to keep the piinutes and the accounts. The ideal secretary is a man "of ideas and dynamic force, who can lead his people to tjhe acceptance of those ideas, who can arouse interest of the directors and other members and give them something to do, unconsciously to themselves, that is worth while for the upbuilding of the town.