Editor: Sue Stivers
President's Message: Ron Heath
Feature Writers: Sue Stivers, Ramie Hutchinson, Stephanie Barrett, Roger Meadows

"If you want to touch the past TOUCH A ROCK.
If you want to touch the present TOUCH A ROSE.
If you want to touch the future TOUCH A LIFE.."

• February 15 to March 31 - Membership Drive
• March 8 - Chamber Board Meeting - 7:30 AM Chamber Board Room
• March 9 - Economic Development Authority, Inc. - 8:00 AM at Chamber Bldg.
• March 15 - Monthly Chamber Meeting - 11:45 AM at The Pines at Lindsey Wilson
• March 15 - Tourism Commission - 6:30 PM at Chamber Board Room
• April 15 - Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet - 6:30 PM, Cranmer Dining Center, Lindsey Wilson College

1. Because through the Chamber of Commerce the individual citizen can best discharge his or her obligations to the city in which he or she lives and makes a living.


2. Because I reap benefits in my personal affairs through the concerted planning, counsel, and action that is best obtained through the work of the Chamber of Commerce.


3. Because I realize that every man owes a debt to his community that cannot be paid in taxes - a debt of personal service.


4. Because I believe that the man who serves his community through active participation in the work of his Chamber of Commerce, will develop his own powers and broaden his own views.


5. Because the Chamber of Commerce unifies the public spirit of any city and directs it into useful and constructive channels.


6. Because the Chamber of Commerce helps create and express sound opinion on questions affecting the welfare of my city and county, state and the country at large.


7. Because it links the people of the entire community together in a common enterprise, and makes possible great public and business-forward movements.


8. Because my business judgment tells me that whatever is best for this city and my neighbors is too valuable an asset for me to pass up.


9. Because the Chamber of Commerce is the gauge of a civic enterprise, prosperity, and ambitions, and reflects the combined wishes of the community.


10. Because as a member of the Chamber of Commerce I am afforded an opportunity actually to work for conditions I have long hoped for.


11. Because I profit in dollars and cents, both directly and indirectly, from the work of the organization and in personal satisfaction in working toward a goal that is not entirely in the range of self-interest.


12. Because my membership in the Chamber shows my sympathy with an organized effort to better my city and improve conditions of life within it.


13. Because active participation in community affairs is both a personal privilege and civic responsibility.


14. Because it is unfair and unjust for me to derive benefits from a community-serving organization and not give it my active support.


15. Because I consider that membership in the Chamber of Commerce pays a high rate of interest in community service, personal contacts, community betterment, and civic pride.


16. Because the Chamber of Commerce holds up an ideal of civic development and commercial advancement that tends to the encouragement of what is helpful and the elimination of what is harmful.


17. Because I am selfish enough to want the greatest return from my money and the best results from my efforts, and I know these can be best secured through cooperative effort with my fellows.


18. Because I want to play my part in the organized development of my community and to carry my share of the public burden.


19. Because the Chamber of Commerce is business insurance - an institution that is accomplishing great good for my city at a time when concerted action means more than ever before.


20. Because I realize that attention to my own business is not enough. No individual business will prosper greatly unless general conditions are improved. The Chamber of Commerce is part of a nation-wide business movement working to that end. As an individual I want to pool my efforts with others for greatest results.