Show small independently owned stores declared to be hope of the present age small independently owned busin ess is today the greatest hope of our count rys young men and women rapidly changing methods 0 of po pio and distribution are bringing about a tremendous revival of 0 individual business enterprises and the new generation will lind find greater of opportunity port unity for or its abilities and ambitions in the small neighborhood store than in the offices of 0 a huge corporation speaking before a group of 0 younger store owners and managers of the independent grocers alliance on oil the occasion of the organizations tenth anniversary J frank grimes its founder president said the old fashioned merchant of times gone by with his hi antiquated methods shoddy merchandise and tremendous resistance to any new idea Is gone or nearly so in ill his place we have the modern ambitious fellow who realizes that in a small individual enterprise there is opportunity lie he could not find elsewhere it is these men who are changing the count rys entire commercial structure they are forgetting their early disdain ot of ahe abe corner drug store the meat meal market and the grocers job in the realization that they offer the most tangible opportunities port unities through change and improvement pro |