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Show Retail Lumbermen I Hold Convention f I in Salt Lake City I President Robert Anderson of Logan Calls I the Meeting to Order. Philadelphia Bus- I iness Expert Tells Dealers to Expel Worry I Salt Lake City, Fob. 13. Dr. Stanley L. Krebs of Philadelphia, business expert for John Wauamakcr and ono of tho leading authorities ,tn America on the psychology of business efficiency, converted, or scorned to have converted mor3 than 400 lumber merchants to tho rallglon' of eliminating fear and worry from business llfo at tho convention of the Western1 Retail Lumbermen's association asso-ciation which opened yesterday nl tho Hotel Utah. Dr. Krebs declared that fear and worry are tho two great snakes In tho modern business brain which havo proven moro deadly dead-ly than the bullets of nil warfare recorded re-corded In history. Fear and worry lead to thrco great tragedies, said Dr. Krebs. Theso are nervous breakdown; Insanity nnd sulcldo. if fear and worry are permitted per-mitted to grow In tho business brain they will lead to ono of theso threo calamities. Worry particularly will grow Into a great constrictor who will strangle you to death eventually am this great snake In tho business brain combined wlth.the snake of worry has killed moro than the bullets of tall wars recorded in history. Dr. Krebs continued to explain that when fear and worry enter the brain of the business man then stagnation and Inefficiency develop. Ho dwelt extensively upon psychology of fenr and worry and their growth which lead 'to final destruction, ile pictured tho helplessness of a business busi-ness man Inclined to becomo possessed possess-ed of fear and worry in competition with ono who knows no fear or worry wor-ry as a sad calamity. Absenco of fear nnd worry always al-ways glvo way to tho development of natural efficiency and success In all walks ot lite, , continued Dr. Krebs. A little boy wanted employment employ-ment in a big New York business house. He knew that ho would have to steal by many guards protecting the way to tho proprietor's offlco. rie did so with must stealth and soon ho was face to face with tho proprietor. propri-etor. The proprietor asked him what ho wanted and tho boy told him ho wanted a Job. Then tho proprietor asked him how ho found It possible to get into his office. Tho boy told him that tho sign on tho front door told him how. But what sign did you see "n tho door to my store, nskod the iroprl-ctor, iroprl-ctor, becoming Interested In tho pluck of tho lad. Push, replied the boy, and It Is needless to say that ho was hired. That boy was not possessed of tho snakes of fear and worry which sometimes attack tho brain ot a train ed man when he puts his hand on the knob of tho proprietor's offlco, but turns away out ot fear and worry and decides he will call on tho proprietor pro-prietor the next day. Dr. Krebs continued to illustrate many other instances in which physical phy-sical and mental conditions may tend to introduco Into tho business brain the disease ot fear and worry. Toward the conclusion ot his address he employed a chart and called upon his audience to reclto In chorus brief rules designed to eliminate fear nvd worry. Ho added that ho always had found spiritual things Important In life to create happiness. All religions nro designed t'J rutke people happy, but sometimes a man becomes melancholy when ho takes hold ot tho wrong end ot the right times this happens when ho takes hold of fho wrong end of th orlght religion, continued Dr. Krebi. HJ The convention was called to or- H der at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morn lng in the ball room of the Hotel , Utah, by President Robort Anderson 'H ot Logan. The Graham Ensign quar. j tet sang a selection, after which M Mayor Samuol C. Parle welcomed 'jH the lumbermen's convention to Salt 'H Lake. Tho mayor said it wis to bo regretted that It was not Bummer J when delegates to tho convention might tako advantage of plcnsuro re- U sorts. H Rotall lumbermen ot Salt Lako know how to do things, nnd havo al- ready I see mado you iVol at homo, H said Mayor Park. The rorail lumber H mon of Salt Lnko aro a prtttr fair H example ot our citizenship. In the annual address of President 'H Anderson bo urged that tho 1200 :H members of the association devote M every effort toward the building up H ot their respective communities. Ha H said that it was the duty ot retail H lumber dealors to becomo. leaders -in j their communities. He told ot th iH great benefit derived bylumberdeal M ers In the building up of communities M in unsettled portions of the west. ' W. H . Mlllori editor ot the Wes- 9 tern Lumberman, "next addressed the IH convention on community devolop- !H ment. JH Men who porsistontly romaln out- !H side tho trado organizations are In jjH danger ot having tholr montallt H called in question, said Mr. Miller. jjH This Is not a Joke, but a serious sci- jH entitle proposition. Ono of tho signs H of waning mental power Is the lnabll- H Ity to coordinate ono's actions with jH i yt (Continued on page five) jH iH CONVENTION LUMBERMEN (Continued from pago one) those of other intelligent beings. If Saft Lake Is to nchleve Its preordained pre-ordained destiny It must aid In the upbuilding of the entire state. No man can get something for nothing. No man can get a living out of either eith-er a business or a community Into i which ho would put no life. Yoi cannot bo a live man In a dead town A dead ono could not even sell torn') stones in a grac yard. You must get out among tho lle ones. Prior to tho address of Dr. Krebs which took plticc during tho afternoon Secretary Porter jwe a talk on tlio work of the plan book department, associated with the Western Retail Lumbermen's association. According to the book plan anyone planning to build a homo may get blue prjnts hud complete designs from tho plan book department. This department . been Instituted, he said to help Mm-ulate Mm-ulate tho lumber business; Tho following committees vsro named by President Anderson iftjr ho delivered his opening nddrcsi: Resolutions F. II. Whclan, c'.nlr-man; c'.nlr-man; George E. Morrill and W. T Dennlston. Nominations F. E. Ro-mine, Ro-mine, chairman; H. F. Bray and J. M. Flint. Auditing A. MacCauig, chairman; T. W. Emerson and Harry Rablln. |