The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-18
SALT LAKE IN
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lag block The meeting was we'll at
tended, and the principal topics under
discussion We're the cost Of living be-
yond ones means, the boSt way TO
meet the weekly accounts. and self
protection against interruptions or
backward customers.
How to meet the demands of the
customers and still keep above board
developed into subject which seem.
ed 10 trouble most OF the members
and yet one which is apparently un'
solvable. This matter has reached
the stage whore 1t Is every man for
himself and the devil for US all. :"
declared w. ]. Heckmann In a point
ed speech. land | find that the only
way to meet IL Ia along the rule taught
by the old man In our boyhood days,
and that is to be good scrapper and
fight when flghting becomes neces-
sary.
muet Make Prices Lower. s
THE consumer is demanding low.
er prices" continued Mr.. Hickman,
land 1t is up to us to furnish them
II we can, We are barely living az
1t Is. The cost of feed Is high, rents
are higher than ever before. taxes
are boosted each year, our license is
double-something unheard Of In any
other state In the country-and on
every hand we meet conditions that
are hard to face. When we go to the
markets we find that the same price
exists from one wagon to another.
The best articles are invariably
bought before the merchant arrives;
peddlers are at the markets all night
long and, in great many instances,
the farmers are met before they get
TO market The commission men seem
to fix the price on everything. and tho
formers back them up In II During the
week just past potatoes dropped from
$1.15 to 80 cents, and there seems to
be no reason for II at this time In the
year. when the farmer Is leaving his
potato Ground for the winters supply
let us keep the farmers and com.
mission men separated. Unless we do,
We will have to pay the price. The
selling price Of everything is fixed,
and we arc the suckers. Personally,
| want to see the same plan followed
here as in 'a~gor cities. where they
have consumers market and a retoil
market We mus educate the people
up 20 the conditions existing and we
must get our money for what We sell"
Cost of High living.
That the trouble Is not go much tho
cause of the price of food stufts as
IT is the cost OF living beyond ones
means, was the contention OF F. w.
Wilson
You men know that when you have
customer who earns 500 month
he is living at an average cost OF $125
a month";" declared Mr. Wilson IF
the average man can afford a five.
room cottage he has a seven-room
house, II you, yourselves, can afford
a $500 register, you have a $500 one:
and so 1t goes 1t is not the high cost
of living as much AS IT ls the cost Of
high living"
Buys Cheaper In Ogden.
Taking Zip the discussion again, Mr..
Hickman declared that he could buy
food stuffs for 4 lesser price by send
ing to Ogden, and paying the express.
age, than he could by buying 1t from
the local combines. On the question
OF the location OF a public market. Mr..
Hickman voiced the sentiment OF the
meeting when he said that he was not
particularly satisfied with either To-
cal market, but believed that one
could be arranged with the co-opera-
ton Of all the retailers, working in
conjunction with the city and with
others interested
He moved that because of the bet
ter location of the Continental market
for all concerned 1t be the sense OF
the meeting that the association in
dorse the Continental. provided the
city would make It sanitary within
the next year. The motion carried
with but one dissenting yote-that of
A z, Poulton. The old haymarket
site and the street on Second South
between Third and Fourth South were
also suggested,
Transient Deadbeats,
In view OF the recent order of the
commission men forcing the retailers
to meet their accounts at the end Of
each week. the question of credit was
one OF more than absorbing inter
est.
I'VE have got to get our money or
get out Of business declared Presi-
dent Weight we all have custom
erS who are deserving of credit and
to whom we are glad TO extend credit,
while. on the other hand, we are all
troubled with the people who seem
To make It n business of Hitting from
one town to another, leaving a string
OF debts behind them.
AT the present time we have 120.-
600 names of Salt Lake people In our
rating directories and when a new
customer applies for credit the gro
Ger should apply to the office for n
rating II is also the duty of every
merchant TO notify the Office when no
is beaten out OF his bills by Gus
toner
According to 3. NJ Olson. there will
be 1000 tradesmen In this city out OF
employment during the coming win.
ter
Those men and their families will
have to live" said Mr. Olson, but
we cannot AFFORD to keep them. This
Is serious problem which faces the
members OF the association and we
must insist on getting our money or
cutting on the trade of those who
cannot pay"
WOMEN OF COLORADO