The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-08
CREDIT MEN LIKE
LOWER REVENUES
Falling OFF in Income Shows
There Were Fewer Fail
ures During Year.

The annual meeting of the Utah AS
ISOLATION of Credit Men was held yes
terday afternoon at the Commercial
club. Arthur Parsons was reelected
president, Nearly all of the old OH
GERS and directors were reelected me
financial report showed falling on IN
revenue. but at the annual banquet
last night President Parsons said that
this reflected the prosperity OF the or
ganization, in that it meant that there
were less failures ana fewer insolven-
cies over which the credit men presid-
ed during the year.
w. S. Mccarthy, secretary of the
Commercial club traffic bureau, In g
carefully prepared paper let the credit
men into the confidence and history OF
the bureau. He said that while it had
been organized during the waning of
1908, it had in less than two years
made itself felt by the railroads
Mr.. Mccarthy said that sixteen loyal
citizens of Salt Lake were maintaining
the bureau and fighting for the rights
of all the people in the state. Speak
ing of the future of the Commercial
club traffic bureau, Mr.. Mccarthy
said:
"The colonist going from st. Louis
to Los Angeles pays 1872 for his ticket
It permits him to stop at points in
Colorado, also in Nevada and Califor-
MIA, but not at Salt Lake or Ogden.
The Commercial club proposes TO
spend fifty thousand dollars advertiS-
ing this city If we can round up a
lot of millionaires who earn their daily
bread by the sweat of their stocks and
bonds ali right, let US advertise; but
If we must take people as they come,
and as a result OF our advertising they
do come. what can we do for those
who require something more than eli
mate to live on? Where are the fac
tories in which they can earn live
lihood? ?"
At the afternoon meeting of credit
men, reports of officers were read
showing that the association has a
mbership of 116, and has more than
$4,000 in the treasury. Arthur Par
sons was reelected president; NJ H.
Sowles vice president; P. L. Doran,
secretary; A D. McMullen, treasurer;
]. w. Delano, c. r. Long, S. J. Griffin,
Arthur Kuhn and ]. T. Young consti-
tute the board of directors.
Arthur Parsons, Joseph Johnson and
E. H Sparks were chosen as delegates
to the National Credit Mems eonven-
ton to be held in New Orleans May
II to 20. Two more delegates will be
selected by the directors
The banquet at the Commercial club
last night was a pleasant AFFAIRS II
was attended by almost the entire
membership The program was varied
| The speeches were not long, but peril
nent, and in keeping with the occasion
The Graham Male Quartette SANG
four very pleasing numbers. Kenneth
c. Kerr gave several representations
and told two good stories to the de-
light of the credit men. Robert B.
Porter, attorney for the association
spoke Interestingly on the value and
results attained by the association
During the course of his remarks he
referred to Theodore Roosevelt as an
ideal American, and there was vigor-
Gus applause. The Rev. Elmer L
Goshen told several clever stories, and
closed with a tribute to the credit men
and the part they are playing in max
ing Utah a great state.
Gene Owen, in Chinese makeup
added variety to the program.