Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-31
GIBSON SOAP MEN BANQUET
District Managers and Heads OF Depart
ments Guests Of the Company,
AFFAIR PLEASANT FOR ALL CONCERNED
Successes of the Past and Plans for
the Future Discussed In Addi-
ton 90 Efforts TO Have
Good Time.

The Gibson Soap company gave ban
quet to its district managers and heads OF
departments at 1880 last night at tie Com
merCial club as an expression OF upprecia-
ton for the good work done by the hrm $
employees during the last year. j. J. Glib
son, the head of the institution, and w. +.
Summers, general manager, were present.
Mr.. Gibson acted as POSTMASTER. The af-
fair lacked nothing that would add to the
pleasure and entertainment of the guests.
a program which called for remarks upon
various subjects relating to the trade mad
been prepared and followed the feast. The
topics discussed were as follows:
Profitable Advertising" W. +. Sum
mers.
Tho Advantage of Maintaining Prices, "
c. a. Chapman.
The Value of Making Friends ~ NJ
Norris.
How to Reach the Hospitals" Ii. NJ
Goounow.
"kegaining the Lost" c. s. stockham.
The Sale of Goods al a Profit y. Is
Tine Possibilities of the Small Town.
NJ. ID. Houck.
Enthusiasm as an Aid to Success" G. A
| Meyer
Opening New Territory" f. L. OHalre
"The Grocer" George Reilly.
"fersistency,' X. Il. Chapman.
"House-to- House CanVasslng,' +. T.. 30.
land.
Opportunity" Howard Holbrook.
how it Looks to the New Man" II. o
Wills.
Manufacturing" A. L. Mark.
Protecting our Rights ". D. MclIugh
"Co-Operation,' Miss richards.
Ambition, II. l.. Beach.
captain Your own snip, Miss Smith.
Good Words for Assistants.
The program concluded with the main ad
| dress of the evening, given by Mr.. Gibson
| who took as his text the subject of Mis-:
| Smiths paper, Captain Your own Ship,
| in which he likened the experimenting oi
| a modern business institution to the run
| ming of ship at sea; how the engineer
| signals to the captain as to the speed o.
| the engines, enabling him to make deduc
| lions as to the location and course of tn,
! vessel, and how an error on the part o.
| the engineer is apt to send the ship upoI
| the rocks and to destruction. The distric
| managers, he said, are the engineers in tn
| case of the Gibson company, and he him
| self has the honor of being the captain
THE ship is now riding on the high way,
| of prosperity" continued Mr. Gibson, blu
| storms will come to threaten destruction
| and the engineers must then do their dut!
to save it. II we continue safely on on
| course l will take off my hat to you, ant
! give you all the credit as the ones WHIT
have saved us from disaster"
Taking up another phase of the plans 10
! 1906, he said that as the farmer selects hi
seed for next year out of this years crop
! so the company will search around the ban
| quet table for the firms crop for 1906 il
! full confidence that a bountiful harvest will
J be the result. A salesman should take gooC
! care of his field, he said looking out fol
| thistles and weeds. He spoke at som,
| length of the need in Omaha of a manu-
facturers' association, saying that he be
/ lieves that such an organization should
| be formed and that it would be a grea
| mutual help in marketing goods and othel
ways. AS an additional mark of apprecia
| ton, the heads Of departments were pre-
scented with two beautiful paintings by
! Fiori. Those present at the banquet in
! cluded, besides those on the program, Mis-,
Louisa Ford II. Linderman and A ]
| RarklpV