Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-26
WITH NO JEWELERS.!
Pause and Contemplate the Thought,
Says Arkwright.
OMNIBUS PICTURE HE DOES PAINT
one Way 20 Avoid HeadIOnG Plunge
Downward e. TO Have Boar
Of Examiners for
watches.

elers in every small town and city; without
anyone TO loan watches and engrave en-
gagement rings for nothing; without the
men with the big regulators and the black
thimbles over their eyes. were drawn by
President George Arkwright Thursday at
the opening session of the Nebraska Retail
Dealers association.
Mr.. Arkwright spoke of the many things
the jewelers. could do to make their bust
ness successful and meet the competition
Of pirate jewelers. in his annual address and
closed with this warning:
Down in Arizona is the Grand Canon.
Down deep in the earth a mile or more you
may go, past strata OF every known geo.
logical age, but this whole is nothing to
the depth of the place you are all going II
you do not look up and become better jew
elers, better merchants and more alive to
the innumerable enemies that are surely
undermining the business"
One OF the prcventatives suggested to keep
the jewellers from reaching that spot where
there is no refulgent sun, is a state board
Of examiners In matchmaking. such a bill
Is before the Nebraska legislature and the
president of the Nebraska Retail Jewellers
association endorses It. or course the reso-
lutions committee of the organization will
report a resolution urging the jewelers. to
work for II.
Must Know How for Sure.
This means the 'tinkerers' who are re-
pairing watches will have to know what
kind of a pinion to put In a starboard
watch, or whether one can be inserted with
out knocking out the escapements. Then
after paying a bright new IS bill for the
examination. short essays will have to be
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chronometer and a dogwatch, why the idle
wheel don't work and where to find the
pallet of the port watches.
Another idea of President Arkwrlghl
which he says is original with him in this
country, but very old in England, is tC
have annual or semi-Annual exhibits o.
the work of apprentices in connection with
the associations, at which prizes will b'
offered for engraving. working in stee
turning, etc. The president thought suci
competition, especially among apprentices
would lead to a better grade of work beinj
done.
We might also suggest without impro
piety thai a board of examiners be APP
pointed to test some of the lubricatIng oil
which are used In watches" said the presi
dent. "Then there Is the talk of a jewel
ers' fire insurance company. We ought {
have a burglary insurance at the sam
time"
Jewellers Are OpuIcnt.
According to Mr.. Arkwright. the jeweler
OF Nebraska are becoming opulent ar
have made some money during the las
year.
1--WE have been deluged with agent
of eastern manufacturers, who frankly ad
mitted that It was next to impossible {
sell goods I'm the cast or only in reduce
, amounts. But there has been nc lack {
money In Nebraska. Everyone seems I
carry a check book and good loans ar
hard to find. 1t is a long time since jew
, elers had any money to invest outside the.
business, but now you will find them d
3 rectors In national banks and men of cor
/ sequence.
r "It matters little to our self-containe
r state what conditions are elsewhere PIT
vided our farmers nave had fair crops
Y fairly good prices. We are independent
r eastern cash and our state has more tina
r enough money for all local demands
a With all these things, the president d
d not conclude without telling the jewelei
T. from his ripe experience that success
voltage under control and zone haT
S should be kept on the transformer of 20
n kosmic kilowatts."
Q In welcoming the jewelers. to the cit
Mayor Dahlman promised that Thursda
$ ever ing the letters should go up on II
srch over Farnam street. IN. r. J. A."
Real Welcome Coming.
THAT will be the real welcome you W
get. we had something else up there la
\ evening, and when you are gone tomorro
we will put up something for the autom
q bile show. The fact of the matter is, thin
come to Omaha so fast we have to chang
that sign often, but 1t means just as nut
and our people are behind 1t.
Take the c~ity-you will like II as we q
IL is not as wide open as some peoT
le would like to have it, but It is wide enouI
e for any reasonable. respectable and dece
ID man, and 1t will suit you, as / see no o
rs who would push the lid up the width of
re hair spring or put ralf an ounce tr
weight on IL to hold II down more tightly
,e The afternoon session was devoted to a
10 dresses by w. ]. Pilkir gtcn, editor Of I
q Merchants Trade Journal. on The X
ID failing Il Merchandise a Science Al
pr by Emil Gcist of st. Paul, who spoke
se "The Advantage OF Jewellers Getting A
N quainted.'
$. Last evening the jewellers had a theat
e marty and resume business session at
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