Show GOOD AND BAD BUSINESS former governor Chilst lauson of minnesota noy imy president of the national bretall grocers Oro cers As asoula ocla tion lion brought good news to hla his oil ell ants the other day when ho he announced that independent grocers had made substantial busi business gains during tho the isaab four years was waa referring particularly ticul arly to tho the fact that throughout tho the country independent grocers by devoting themselves to tho job of getting better mor merchants chants had bad been bae showing their cicela tos to 0 their more or less leaa friendly rivals the chain stores hla address delivered in salt lake city was was interpreted in somo some quarters as aa forecasting an end to the unfortunate internecine dwar warfare between single businesses and chain store businesses for he promised that his hid waso association clation intends ia tho the future to concentrate its attention upon constructive efforts to kiako Anake its ita members better mer chants chanta and confine its legislative activities to tho the regulation of specific business practices tills this Is all to io the good abent deut bu business sinews men have been demonstrating on that they dont need artificial to hold them up by turning their thoughts toward tho the running of better stores they have found that they can take care of themselves very nicely so it may bo be expected that in the future they will lend an increasingly deaf ear car to that minority which is forever tr ying trying to got something for nothing i i there aro are still a few and no doubt will always ahwal d be a few to listen to the siren call of the political sharpshooter the crafty manipulator who wants to use them fora tor a too many big wholesaler combines au and too many compliant trade associations slated alsted too long on the nourishment of political trickery with independent merchants coal coming ng to realize this we may look for the ilie happy lyday day when they own inefficiency neither the consumer nor the good merchant can afford to carry an umbrella over the fellow who doe know hla his bir blaness and willing to learn ansons r remarks e m a r k s sound like the soothing music of a ney ncy day and ana if he can only prevail upon tho the re maning agitators to turn their efforts toward constructive things rather than punitive assaults upon competition everybody will be better oft off Cerl tift wo we would deplore anil and practically everybody else would deplore any renewal of the old scrap between single merchants und and chains sound bound lea leadership der ship constructive truc tive business methods and hard work will do a thousand times more for both merchant and con coll sumer sinner than tiny any amount of bickering faultfinding fault finding and law passing |